Quotes About Understanding

Mr. Fielding, no one can ever realize how much kindness we Indians need, we do not even realize it ourselves. But we know when it has been given. We do not forget, though we may seem to. Kindness, more kindness, and even after that more kindness. I assure you it is the only hope.

I can't be sacked from my job, because my job's Education. I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It's the only thing I do believe in. At Government College, I mix it up with trigonometry, and so on. When I'm a saddhu, I shall mix it up with something else.

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

She "never exactly understood," she would say in after years, "how he managed to strengthen her. It was as if he had made her see the whole of everything at once.

It was nothing to him that Nature had caught up this dropped stitch in order to continue her pattern. While he had love he had kept reason.

Maurice did not understand, but the voice soothed him.

Clive pulled him back into themselves. He murmured something about Eternity in an hour: Maurice did not understand, but the voice soothed him.

Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart; men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls; even men might suffer from unexplained desires, and need help.

Tibby is moderately a dear now," said Helen. "There! I knew you'd say that in the end. Of course he's a dear.

One doesn't ask plain questions. There aren't such things.

The Wilcoxes were not lacking in affection; they had it royally, but they did not know how to use it. It was the talent in the napkin, and, for a warm-hearted man, Charles had conveyed very little joy. As he watched his father shuffling up the road, he had a vague regret—a wish that something had been different somewhere—a wish (though he did not express it thus) that he had been taught to say 'I' in his youth.

It is pleasant to analyse feelings while they are still only feelings, and unembodied in the social fabric

und verstand nichts, nur dass der Mensch geschaffen worden ist, ohne Hilfe des Himmels Schmerzen und Einsamkeit zu erleiden.

You don't love me, evidently. I dare say you are right not to. But it would hurt a little less if I knew why." "Because"—a phrase came to her, and she accepted it—"you're the sort who can't know any one intimately.

But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.

How dare Schlegels despise Wilcoxes, when it takes all sorts to make a world?

You show so very clearly that intelligence and sympathy are superficial - good enough things in their way - they do what they can and would gladly do more; but the real thing is "being there", and the worst of it is, no two human beings can be in the same place

Perhaps we woke up one another. I like to think that anyway.

He is the sort who are all right so long as they keep to things—books, pictures—but kill when they come to people.

Entä ellet sanoisi mitään?" ehdotti dekaani. "Etten sanoisi mitään? Hirvittävää. Olette järjiltänne." "Puhutteko te sitten aina, jos sopii kysyä?" tiedusteli Chapman. Risley sanoi, että asia oli niin. "Ettekö koskaan väsy puhumiseen?" "En koskaan.

He looked at her, instead of through her, for the first time since they were engaged.

my job's Education. I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It's the only thing I do believe in.

Fielding! how's one to see the real India?" "Try seeing Indians.

The mystery, like so many mysteries, was explained.