Quotes About Understanding

In fact, his silent foreknowledge of the conspiracy suggests that he was not without sympathy with them

Gaius was now thirteen years old and well able to understand the seriousness of the situation.

His biographer, Cornelius Nepos, a younger contemporary whom he knew personally, wrote that Atticus "behaved so as to seem at one with the poorest and on a level with the powerful.

sociological research is part of a continuous 'two-way' process between sociologists and the subjects they study.

The lesson we learn early in our lives and too often forget … to listen to the word of God alive in our own souls.…

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Helga never will admit that she is clever, yet I find she discovers from me what she wants to know, and I suspect hides successfully the small matters of which she in her wifely discretion deems I had best remain ignorant. Being thus able to manage me, she was equal to coping with the butler.

You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.

Alan invented all sorts of ways of expressing things so that only he and I understood. He used language as a place for us to hide.

It was the reference to Down's syndrome that most upset him. Mary described it as an 'awful sickness'. It wasn't. It was a condition, not an illness. What sort of woman could see it as a threat to her own bloodline? Had she really pulled up the drawbridge on her son's marriage simply to protect future grandchildren from

In a way, I think I am writing this for Leo. I have decided to keep a record of my life because I suspect my life will be short. I do not particularly want to be remembered. After all, being unknown has been essential to my work. But I sometimes think of him and I would like him to understand what it was that made me what I am.

There are a lot of people who don't like a lot of people but they don't go around the place murdering them.

Pünd had never seen murder as a game, not even as a puzzle to be solved. His work was an examination of humanity at its darkest and most desperate. You could not solve crime unless you understood its genesis.

We need to tolerate intolerance

It could have happened like that.' Why did Hawthorne have to sound so unsure when it was perfectly obvious to me?

He knew what he was doing. So I never understood how he could have been so bloody stupid. The simple fact of the matter is that there was no reason for him to die.

It's amazing, really, the invisible process that can turn complete strangers into friends.

Each book was a friend.

You didn't hate her,' Joy said, quietly. 'Things weren't right between you, that's all. You were both living in the shadow of what had happened and you didn't realise how much it was hurting you.