Quotes About Understanding

You are young, dears, and however clever young people are, and however many books they read, they will never guess what it feels like to grow old.

efforts not so much to acquire knowledge as to dispel a little of the darkness by which we and all our acquisitions are surrounded.

I don't intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life — good heavens, no! There are heaps of things in me that he doesn't, and shall never, understand.

Not only in Tracts is a child a peacemaker.

You can't fight Medusa with anything else. If you ask me what the Spirit of Life is, or to what it is attached, I can't tell you. I only tell you, watch for it. Myself I've found it in books. Some people find it out of doors or in each other. Never mind. It's the same spirit, and I trust myself to know it anywhere, and to use it rightly.

It all turns on affection now," said Margaret. "Affection. Don't you see?" Resuming her usual methods, she wrote the word on the house with her finger. "Surely you see. I like Helen very much, you not so much. Mr. Mansbridge doesn't know her. That's all. And affection, when reciprocated, gives rights. Put that down in your note-book, Mr. Mansbridge. It's a useful formula.

Helen, what a memory you have for some things! You're perfectly right. It's a room that men have spoilt through trying to make it nice for women. Men don't know what we want— " "And never will." "I don't agree. In two thousand years they'll know.

How dare Schlegels despise Wilcoxes, when it takes all sorts to make a world? "Don't brood too much," she wrote to Helen, "on the superiority of the unseen to the seen. It's true, but to brood on it is medieval. Our business is not to contrast the two, but to reconcile them.

So long as we learn it doesn't matter who teaches us, does it?

Nah,' I tell her after a while. 'He is more like a brother, you know?' The good kind. The kind with the purple teeth.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself

Actually, it isn't a secret at all. It was first promulgated by some of the earliest wise men, and it appears again and again throughout the Bible. But very few people have learned it or understand it. That's why it's strange, and why for some equally strange reason it virtually remains a secret.

No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time.

We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppressed person, and so I understand them, as best as I can, even though I am a ??

We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppressed person, and so I understand them, as best as I can, even though I am a heterosexual.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

Nowhere among the early Christians do we find the cold light of intellectual understanding that constantly analyzes and differentiates. Instead, there was the Spirit that burned within their hearts and made their souls alive. (Col. 2:8–10)

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Gönlü kuraklar? biçeceksin ki kökünden, daha da kimseye zarar veremesinler. Yara açmalar? mümkün olmas?n bizim gibilerde.

Dilini bilmedi?in bir yerde a?lamak fenad?r. Çünkü seni, senin dilinde susturacak kimse yoktur.

?nsan, yaras? yaras?na denk geleni seviyor demek ki...

Albert Camus, que en cierta ocasión dijo: «Un hombre con el que no se puede razonar es un hombre al que hay que temer.»

We have also failed to grasp the fact that understanding requires action. If we are not politically active or reactive, then the act of understanding turns into only the expression and exchange of emotional responses.