Quotes About Understanding

raised dots form letters, the letters words, the words a world.

She thinks: They just say words, and what are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die.

Logic. The principles of validity. Every lock has its key.

La lógica, la razón y la ciencia pura son las tres vías apropiadas, insiste Aronnax, para aproximarse al misterio.

A moment like this--the four of them around the table under the sad, dusty kitchen lamp--could never accommodate all the things she had to say.

GUARDIAN #2: Though it will seem simple at first, it's actually quite complicated. GUARDIAN #1: No, no, it will seem complicated at first, but it's actually quite simple. GUARDIAN #2: Ready, little crow? Here's our riddle. "He that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this.

but it was also something in Sandy herself, an unwillingness to allow anything more to upset the realm of her understanding.

How much easier it would have been if he and Sandy could have fought: a skirmish in the night, some harsh words, some measure of the truth actually spoken aloud.

There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inaccurate

Rozgotuj do samych koÅ›ci sÅ'owa, które ju? znasz, a zwykle na dnie garnka znajdziesz wpatrzone w ciebie oczy staro?ytnych.

Boil the words you already know down to their bones," Rex says, "and usually you find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up.

when the hairy wildmen who lived there spoke, their words froze and their companions would have to wait for spring to hear what had been said.

Moonlight: his ropy tail, his shaggy cloven hooves. God knits him together in the womb of Beauty beside his brother and he lives for three winters and dies hundreds of miles from home and for what? Tree lies down in the reeds and fouls the air around him and Omeir wonders what the animal understands and what will happen to Moonlight's two beautiful horns and every breath sends another crack through his heart.

On est très loin de comprendre ce que c'est d'être aveugle, quand on ferme les yeux.

Boil the words you already know down to their bones and usually you will find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up.

Yet they spoke now across a glass-topped dining table as if words were just words, as if their histories were equivalent.

animal love, the love of an animal that has been living in an incomprehensible world until one day it encounters another of its kind and realizes that it has been applying its comprehension in the wrong place all along.

If we don't talk to the thing we are afraid of, it becomes the thing we hope to kill.

Sometimes I understood what a word meant from reading but had never met it in life.

It's not your fault, he said. And I'm not defending her for what she did. But I believe any story that anybody tells me. You can't be to blame if you got faith in people.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

What it says is that when going against your teenage child's wishes, the greatest wisdom is to say what you have to say, do what you have to do, and then stop—because they will not. An overwhelmingly valuable skill in the parenting of today's teenagers is learning to disengage—sooner rather than later.

What is it to be the parent of a teenager? It is to do what you think best—when really you have no idea what is best. It is to ride out the storms and be back again the next day. It is to give love to a child who does not seem to want it, to a child who five minutes ago seemed to deserve a punch more than anything else.

Tolerance is that important but subordinate virtue by which, instructed in our own weakness, we bear with what is bad without pretending that it is good. We bear with it provisionally, even if sometimes there is nothing we can do about it or ever will be able to do about it. It