Quotes About Understanding

Cats themselves may be very chatty, but they seem to resent it in anyone else. Cats like listeners.

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt.

If the divine is also female, and the female also divine, then she understands that woman is more than mother, more than daughter, more than wife. Those are the facets of a full life, but no single facet defines the jewel.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do.

Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

I have never been wise.

Does anything feel worse than being angry with people you love?" "P. 307: Fitz to Chade

Thoughts were too fast for words and too complex. There was too much to say, more than anyone could ever say in a lifetime about even the simplest things.

Oh, the power that lurks in the naming of names.

It was right, what they said: Enlightenment was merely the truth at the correct time.

Sometimes it is easier to pull a knife out of a man than to ask him to forget words you have uttered.

I was confused, thinking that my pain and my loss were one and the same thing, whereas one was but a symptom of the other.

It is a sense you do not possess, and hence I cannot explain it to you," she added condescendingly. "Imagine trying to explain a sense of smell to someone who had none. What sounds like an arbitrary, almost mystic ability is no different from smelling apple blossoms in the dark.

Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect."" "p. 267: Chade to Fitz

Vultures and peacocks might both have feathers and beaks, but one did not confuse the two creatures.

Feelings don't have to be wise, they just are.

Sometimes you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect

It was a simple account of an incident from his childhood. At the time I recall that I wondered why he had written it down. He obviously remembered it clearly; why bother to record it on paper? Only later was I to learn from my own obsessive journaling of my dreams that sometimes the best way to understand something is to write it down." p. 355

It is difficult to insult the man you don't speak to.

Silence keeps a secret. I understand.' I

Una persona indiferente, cruel o insensible conserva aún la sensatez necesaria para saber que no siempre puede expresar cuán poco le importan los demás, y así sigue siendo aceptado en el seno de su familia o aldea.

A veces resulta más fácil desclavar un cuchillo de un hombre que pedirle que perdone tus palabras. Aunque esas palabras hayan nacido de la rabia.

And in that brief linking, I knew that the girl was dead.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.