Quotes About Understanding

Will it take the rest of my life to process what has happened? I don't know. If Freddy were here, he would say, 'Yet', as per the rules of a playful accord we have concerning unacquired knowledge, whereby if one of us said they didn't know something, the other had to say 'Yet'. And then the other one--usually me--would provide the missing information, or we'd look it up, or just speculate.

None of us got it right. The message was written in letters too big to read, letters that could only be deciphered from a vast distance or an unusual angle. We were as good as blind. This, by the way, is a figurative expression. Unlike many on the spectrum, I can deploy those.

It's official, then. Everyone knew I was gay before I did.

Being someone's best friend doesn't always mean telling them every tiny thing about yourself, you know. Sometimes it means having enough trust to let them have their secrets and still be there for them.

Perhaps nothing is as simple as it looks. Perhaps everything has another layer, a hidden room that only reveals itself when you accidentally stumble across the secret door. Or perhaps I'm talking bollocks and it's time to go to bed.

Being someone's best friend doesn't always mean telling them every tiny thing about yourself, you know. Sometimes it means having enough trust to let them have their secrets and still be there for them. -Morvena

I can't make sense out of that girl, he said to the bard, Can you? Never mind, Fflewddur said, We aren't really expected to.

Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

Behind one truth there is always yet another.

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Because even though they may not be able to define or verbalize it, they sense there's something more than meets the eye; on an almost subliminal level, they're aware of a richness of texture, or meaning and emotion -- a richness that, in a great book, is inexhaustible. And the child may well come back to it again and again, perhaps long after he's stopped being a child.

For the odd thing about wisdom is the more you use it the more it grows; and the more you share, the more you gain. You'd be amazed how few understand that.

Well, said Eilonwy, you can't blame Rhun for being born. I mean, you could, but that wouldn't help matters. It's like kicking a rock with your bare foot.

A lady doesn't insist on having her own way. Then, next thing you know, it all works out somehow, without one's even trying. I thought I'd never learn, though it's really quite easy once you get the knack.

Don't pout that way, my child, you'll give yourself a blister.

I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret

What is the use of studying much when I'm to see nothing at all?

I make nonsense of the world to help others make sense of it.

Sanningen finns i allt om man bara kan förstå det.

Det är inte många, fortsatte han högmodigt, som förstår hur makt ska brukas. Och inte många som vågar bruka den när de blir erbjudna den.

There is a part of us in everyone else.

In some cases," he said, "we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which hadn't been discovered yet.