Quotes About Understanding

Something that doesn't know it's alive, obviously can't be expected to know when it's dead.

There is the True Knot, who live on the road and are in much the same line of work as myself. I leave them be and they are glad to return the favor.

He had heard it the way he wanted to hear it. He had known what he had wanted to know. Maybe it was always that way for almost everyone.

Horror was rooted in sympathy, after all, in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

understood—heroism was exhausting business.

Then she thought she had always known, deep down. She had always understood that obedience would be a great comfort to her, and that was in fact exactly why she resisted. She had sensed if she gave in once, just once, the next time would be easy.

Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you—finish you—as much as you create you. When you're gone, the ones you've left behind get to keep the same part of you they always had.

Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. That's innocence.

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it.

Without understanding exactly how the trap got sprung, he can feel its teeth in him.

Something that doesn't know it's alive obviously can't be expected to know when it's dead.

Because love requires context.

addition, it's often hard for fathers to understand how deeply a daughter's perception of her own appearance influences her perception of her own worthiness, health, or morality.

Her inability to see my color—a quality that at first seemed so fetching in her, so exhilarating and optimistic—ultimately became a statement I could not accept: that my color wasn't important. It seemed she did not know me. It was unbearable.

As a therapist, in doing no harm, we need to honor where the client is at.

Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Just as careful listening is critical to understanding our verbal pronouncements, so careful observation is vital to comprehending our body language.

Commandment 2: Observing in context is key to understanding nonverbal behavior.

Commandment 5: When you interact with others, try to establish their baseline behaviors

The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.

Problem with trying to be rational all the time is the other fellow ain't always concerned with how logical your argument is.

It makes you less ignorant to actually know what you're talking about, so listen to me.

Noi non giudichiamo. Le cose strane sono il nostro mestiere.