Quotes About Understanding

It's always a delusion when I see what you don't want me to see.

Siempre que tengas ganas de criticar a alguien», me dijo, «sólo recuerda que todas las personas en este mundo no han tenido las ventajas que tú has tenido».

P?rea s? manifeste, pentru câteva scurte ore, o urm? din acea veche calitate de a înÈ›elege prea bine pentru a putea reproÈ™a - acea calitate care era cea mai bun? parte a lui È™i care lucrase rapid È™i f?r? încetare la distrugerea lui.

You know, you're a little complicated after all." "Oh no," she assured him hastily. "No, I'm not really - I'm just a - I'm just a whole lot of different simple people.

He smiled understandingly-much more than understanding. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

I disapproved of him from beginning to end. First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all along.

One thing I liked about Mason: he said things. I mean, I thought about a lot of things, but I never actually said them. Out loud. I turned away from him, gave a kick under the covers to show my irritation.

I'm telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles.

you can't have compassion unless you have a certain loyalty to the human race.

Whom the heart first loves does not know or care if they are related by blood.

When you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles.

But you soon find out they don't want to meet you, they want you to meet them.

She knew that being in love all by yourself was the loneliest, most painful experience known to man—or woman—and there was nothing she could do to help him.

On ne peut reprocher à quelqu'un d'être ce qu'il est.

wisest leaders try to understand history, evaluate the larger forces at work, and determine how much room there is for human action.

people need to listen to the experts. But the experts also need to listen to the people.

Americans speak few languages, know little about foreign cultures, and remain unconvinced that they need to rectify this.

What, then, is the best course for the real experts? To help the public understand how their field works, in particular how science works.

Listening is always preferable to talking. Let the other remove his veil, as my grandmother used to say. Give your response time to ripen.

If human beings could communicate in mathematical language -- which is more poetical than any other language -- the world would be an easier place to live. Perhaps one day we will follow Nature's example, for her immense book is written in mathematical language, as Galileo has affirmed.

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

his hands. "Just tell me what

there something you know and