Quotes About Understanding

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Love doesn't work that way. You don't meet one day and kiss and see sparkles the next. Real love takes time. They need to get to know each other, and when they do, then they might fall in love. They know next to nothing about each other now.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.

You're afraid of everything. And I know it. And that's why you don't like me.

Knowledge is a funny thing, Auron. The more of it that's in your head, the more your head can hold. It breeds on its own. You never know what the next bit of reading is going to do, what it's going to meet up with in your head and mate.

There is no reality without interpretation; just as there is no innocent eye, there is no innocent ear.

The first man to understand the extraordinary magical power of applying mathematical calculation to things in nature was an Italian called Galileo Galilei.

Los griegos decían que el asombro es el principio del conocimiento, y si dejamos de asombrarnos corremos el riesgo de dejar de conocer.

Voor de mengeling van volken die onze aarde bewonen, zal het steeds belangrijker worden dat we elkaar respecteren en tolereren, alleen al omdat we door de technische vooruitgang steeds dichter op elkaar worden gedrukt.

These tribes differed little from one another, either in appearance or in language. They spoke different dialects, which they could all understand if they chose. But they very rarely did. For, as is often the case, these close-related, neighbouring tribes were unable to get on with one another. They spent all their time exchanging insults and ridicule, when actually they were jealous of each other.

Porque es una máxima constante que nadie ve lo que son las cosas si no sabe lo que deberían ser.

The Greeks said that to marvel is the beginning of knowledge and where we cease to marvel we may be in danger of ceasing to know.

The mark of the educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and stood on the top of it, but in his admission that there may be other peaks in the same range with men on the top of them, and that, though their views of the landscape may be different from his, they are nonetheless legitimate.

I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.— Grace Trevelyan

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

How can you know what is missing if you've never met it? You must know of something's existence before you can notice its absence.

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

He should know no one intimately, least of all a woman.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.