Quotes About Understanding

Women! He thought, who could ever figure them out? No matter what a man said, he was always in the wrong. There was no logic in them.

Uninformed he might be, unintelligent he was not

Sometimes it's better to reserve judgment Ã¢â'¬Â¦ 

As the days went by, I began to see this girl I had married was even more than I had suspected and in every way.

He knew how she felt. Sometimes a body just had to have somebody to talk to. You saw something and you wanted to turn and say, Isn't that beautiful? And there was nobody there.

Suddenly a knowledge came upon me.

Once you've read a book you care about, some parts of it always stay with you.

If I were asked what education should give, I would say it should offer breadth of view, ease of understanding, tolerance for others, and a background from which the mind can explore in any direction.

Education should provide the tools for a widening and deepening of life, for increased appreciation of all one sees or experiences. It should equip a person to live life well, to understand what is happening about him, for to live life well one must live with awareness.

You never learn anything when you're talkin', boy, only when you're listenin'.

from down the draw, and nobody spoke. All knew that the three

do you want to explain those?" He gestured

But what child in his later years does not wish he had listened when his parents talked among themselves, about themselves, their families, the way they had lived? So often we do not realize how much we could have learned until it is too late and there is no going back.

protect her interests. Of late she had refused to admit there might be occasions when fighting could not be avoided. She had yet to learn that in order to have peace both sides must want it

The idea of love, while always in her mind, had never become quite real to her.

The night before there had been much talk while I was at table, and taking no part in it, I listened nonetheless, for a trail is followed not only upon the earth but in the minds of those one pursues or the minds of those whose thinking is similar.

was lonely. I had to talk…to write to somebody, and there was no one." "There was. There was me.

I despise no learning, Sakim.

If I were asked what education should give, I would say it should offer breadth of view, ease of understanding, tolerance for others, and a background from which the mind can explore in any direction. Education should provide the tools for a widening and deepening of life, for increased appreciation of all one sees or experiences. It should equip a person to live life well, to understand what is happening about him.

I suspect what I was doing would be called courageous. If I rescued them, it might even be considered an heroic action, but was it? Was I not conditioned by reading, by hearing, by understanding what I should do?

if his destiny was to die I would not stand in his way.

Only men must do. It's in their nature to do, and much of what they've done is for the best, only sometimes they start doing before they understand that what they'll get won't be nearly as wonderful as what they had.

there is no bargaining with a man who won't talk.

You must not judge too quickly, he said quietly. Each man deserves to be judged against the canvas of his time and his country.