Quotes About Understanding

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The landscape conveys an impression of absolute permanence. It is not hostile. It is simply there - untouched, silent and complete. It is very lonely, yet the absence of all human traces gives you the feeling you understand this land and can take your place in it.

The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

No hay dos personas que lean el mismo libro.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand.

Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

It is given to very few women to know the beauty of a man's real friendship.

Even their voices go up at the end of a declarative sentence

I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

I do believe the most of me Floats under water; and men see Above the wave a jagged small Mountain of ice, and that is all. Only the depths of other peaks May know my substance when it speaks, And steadfast through the grinding jam Remain aware of what I am. Myself, I think, shall never know How far beneath the wave I go.

Nobody speaks to me. People fall in love with me, and annoy me and distress me and flatter me and excite me and—and all that sort of thing. But no one speaks to me. I sometimes think that no one can. Can you?

Not speak however silently, But my hushed voice will answer Thee

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

La idea de ganarse la confianza ajena sin dar a cambio la suya le parecía el colmo de la sabiduría.

El amor cuando es amor no habla, no necesita.

Supongo que, cuando no se pueden decir las cosas, las miradas se cargan de palabras.