Quotes About Understanding

I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.

What's the meaning of life? Other people.

It must be made possible for the one to live vicariously the life of the many from the beginning.

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.

I don't really care if people like a character ornot; I think in life we don't always like everybody. But you haveto be able to understand them.

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.

Kids aren't going to understand single life in New York City

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is.

Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.