Quotes About Understanding

Take some advice, and you may survive this trip. 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.

Depois daquilo comecei a desejar esclarecer as coisas com o Bobo. Como um dente doloroso, remoí uma e outra vez o que lhe queria dizer.

A girl did not need to hit to hurt someone.

I could not help but see the hand of the balancer in all of this. Could hatred and determination be a counterweight to organization and experience? I suddenly understood something about the old god of death and why he was also the god of balances.

The truth doesn't need you to recognize it, young man, for it to be so. You need the truth to recognize you.

Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. This is wisdom. Does it hurt? Does wisdom hurt? Does peace hurt? Does acceptance hurt?

He'd known of love and accepted that it existed for him. But never before had he actually felt love as a physical sensation that emanated from another creature and warmed and comforted him. It was incredible.

Wintrow's words seemed to echo through his bones. Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. This is wisdom. Does it hurt? Does wisdom hurt? Does peace hurt? Does acceptance hurt? … He could not answer. He was suffused with the boy's simple faith. It rushed through him, warm and reassuring. Of course, he was right. Acceptance. He could not doubt or deny it." P. 190 Kennit

No one truly understands a prophecy until it comes true.

Claro que não sabes (...) E nem sequer queres ver o que está posto na mesa à tua frente. Homens. Se estivesse a chover sopa, estarias lá fora com um garfo.

That is half of teaching an apprentice: making sure the youngster learns what you said, not what she thinks you said.

I don't understand," I said faintly. "You don't have to," he replied comfortingly. "Understanding how or why is very seldom as useful as understanding that things are.

Could it be that simple? Simply pretend we had never quarreled; just go back to treating each other as we had before?

In a moment all became clear to me. How stupid could I have been?

What I said to you earlier, I was angry, I was..." "Right on target." The sound he made might have been a laugh, if not so freighted with bitterness. "Only in the way that people who know one another best know how to hurt one another best," I pleaded.

It all seems pretty obvious now." "It usually is, after someone else thinks of it.

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." And

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. We should be grateful for that.

enlightenment was merely the truth at the correct time.

Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you.

I tried to leave you alone, Fitz. To find what peace you could, even if it excluded me from your life." Ten years ago, I could not have understood the pain in his voice. I would only have seen him as interfering and calculating. Only now, with a son of my own intent on ignoring every bit of advice I'd ever given him, could I recognize what it had cost him to let me go my own way and make my own choices. He

I don't think any two pains are ever exactly the same, Hap. But the part about being a fool, oh, yes.

Are you listening, Buckman? For that is your role in this conversation. You listen.' I

A ruler must be of all his people, for one can only rule what one knows.