Quotes About Understanding

Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!

It is good to live and learn.

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

When I had this concept ["You're All That"] that I'm not just a body with a mind, that I'm a spirit being, I'm a synergistically trying being, when I understood that, life began to come into focus.

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

Do not judge others by your own standards, for everyone is making their way home, in the way they know best.

The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.

He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.