Quotes About Understanding

I had learned that secrets were not always a bad thing.

I disapprove of certainties, said Virgil Jones. They limit one's range of vision. Doubt is one aspect of width.

Who tonight are the Hindus? Who are the Muslims? Here in Kashmir, our stories sit happily side by side on the same double bill, we eat from the same dishes, we laugh at the same jokes. We will joyfully celebrate the reign of the good king Zain-ul-abidin, and as for our Muslim brothers and sisters, no problem!

An eighteen-year age gap had turned out to be a good place to dump most of the problems that can sometimes crop up between brothers

I have been a swallower of lives; and to know me, just the one of me, you'll have to swallow the lot as well.

At the beginning of all love there is a private treaty each of the lovers makes with himself or herself, an agreement to set aside what is wrong with the other for the sake of what is right.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

It was hard not to ask why me, but he had begun to grasp the difficult truth that a thing could have a cause but that was not the same as having a purpose. Even if you could work out how a certain thing had come about—even if you answered the how question—you would be no closer to solving the why.

To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world. I told you that.

Güzellik de bir tür kaderdir, güzellik güzellikle konuÅŸur, fark?na var?r ve onaylar, her konuda mazur görülebileceÄŸine inan?r...

Another lesson to be learned: never underestimate your fellow man. One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

Bir iç çekiÅŸ yaln?zca iç çekiÅŸ deÄŸildir. Dünyay? içimize çekeriz, soluÄŸumuzla birlikte d?? dünyaya anlam da veririz. YapabildiÄŸimiz sürece. YapabildiÄŸimiz kadar?yla.

I will learn that the deepest meaning of love is renunciation, giving up one's own dream to fulfill the dream of the beloved.

My field, she said. It should be a soft safe place for understanding. Instead it's a war zone. I choose peace.

When we are born, we are not automatically human beings. We have to learn how to be human beings. And some of us get there and some of us don't.

It's the difference, you see, between casual sex and love. The more you love, the more closely you get to know, the more profoundly you see, the more you are enriched.

that the truth often lies below the surface, and a man may be a great deal more than his most easily caricatured characteristics

But what, after all, can a baby do except swallow all of it and hope to make sense of it later?

To know one man's story you have to swallow the world.

to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world.

description of the world contains facts, certainly, and facts, as we've seen, are fluttery, elusive creatures, but there are armies of fact lepidopterists chasing after them, and sometimes they do get nailed to the wall, like moths.

Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, Well, that's not how I choose to think about water.? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn't share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love

if you are thinking without knowing you are thinking, you are confused about who and what you are.