Quotes About Understanding

Friendship eased the heart and the mind, but there were times when the touch of arms around you healed an ache within that nothing else reached.

I am not. I am certain of the things that matter. Kindness and honor are always good. Do not build God in your own image, with your doubts and fears, your need to judge and condemn, your need for safety, and to be right whatever the cost to others, and ultimately to yourself. Let your soul be still, and know that God is never capricious, never cruel and never wrong. It is our understanding that stumbles. Even the cleverest of us are yet children, and the wisest of us know that.

Each of us has within him a dark chamber where the real desire flowers; and the horror of it is that they never see the light of another's understanding, those strange blooms. It is as lonely as it is dark, that chambers of the heart.

But in our anguish-darkened land, let us draw close, and clasp the hand; our whispered password holds assuagement -- the solemn "Yea, I understand!"

The more you talk about It and the more you think about It, the further from It you go; stop talking, stop thinking and there is nothing you will not understand.

Once you go blind, unfortunately, words are all you've got.

A woman like that is not a woman, quite.I have been her kind.

Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.

The real me lives in words, not in what words mean.

Just once I knew what life was for.

Surely all who are locked in boxes of different sizes should have their hands held.

Clover['s] eyes are full of language.

And I say to myself that the trouble with life is that people are strangers.

It is not enough to read Hesse and drink clam chowder, we must have the answers.

Language is verbalizing the non-verbal. (That's what makes it so complicated.) Holding hands is better than saying "I love you.

I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said … but did not.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

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My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind of the child.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.