Quotes About Understanding

Ensimmäinen merkki kajastavasta ymmärryksestä on kuoleman kaipuu.

You don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.

Can't you see two inches in front of your nose?

I can't fashion myself into a different person who might be better suited to be his friend.

correct understanding of a matter and misunderstanding the matter are not mutually exclusive.

El aislamiento es una forma de conocernos a nosotros mismos.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Cuando uno se ha despedido definitivamente, como yo había hecho, y este hecho ha sido aceptado por el otro, entonces lo apropiado es resolver rápidamente lo pendiente y no hacerle padecer inútilmente al otro la silenciosa presencia.

Veien til medmennesket er for meg svært lang

He has a hunger for people, the way a born doctor does.

Bir elman?n birbirinden farkl? görünümleri olabilir: Masan?n üstündeki elmay? bir an olsun görebilmek için boynunu uzatan çocuÄŸun görüÅŸü ve bir de, elmay? al?p yan?ndaki arkada??na rahatça veren evin efendisinin görüÅŸü.

Czy pani rozumie, droga panienko, co to za nag?a uciecha, gdy si? zosta?o tak ?wietnie zrozumianym, mimo ?e nawet si? do tego nie zmierza?o?

Parables really set out to say merely that the incomprehensible is incomprehensible, and we know that already. We lose in parable the moment we pin things down to an accessible meaning.

One ought, Milena, to take your face between both hands and look steadily into your eyes so that you would recognize yourself in the eyes of the other and from then on be incapable even of thinking the kind of things you wrote in the letter.

Cuánto la hemos hecho sufrir por tu forma de ser y cuánto la hiciste tú sufrir por la nuestra!, sin considerar las ocasiones en que tenías razón, porque ella nos protegía, a pesar de que esa protección ha debido muchas veces ser una especie de respuesta subconsciente, manifiesta y silenciosa contra tu autoritarismo. (p. 39)

Knowledge must seep into your blood, into your self, not just into your head, you must live it.

No es necesario que salgas de casa. Quédate en tu mesa y escucha. Ni siquiera escuches, espera solamente. Ni siquiera esperes, quédate solo y en silencio. El mundo llegará a ti para hacerse desenmascarar; no puede dejar de hacerlo, se prosternará extático a tus pies.

Sometimes, when I open my mouth, all hell breaks loose. Other times, I feel like a voice in the wilderness and I wonder, 'Does anybody get this?'

Just like Steve did, Bindi's got that strange communication with wildlife. It's beautiful to watch, and it instills an empathy with all of us about just how important the animal kingdom is.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.