Quotes About Understanding

Duh du jour.

Five dollars," O'Malley insisted. "He's small, but smarter than all the other pups put together. I swear he sometimes knows exactly what I'm saying." I knew what he was saying all the time.

spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, that allows us to grow. —MARY CATHERINE BATESON, PERIPHERAL VISIONS

but words are symbols, and symbols never resonate the same for everyone.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

Along with the loss of the sense of self has gone a loss of our language for communicating deeply personal meanings to each other.

It is very difficult to appreciate from the outside what a person in severe anxiety is experiencing. Brown rightly remarked about his friends 'imploring a drowning man [me] to swim when they don't know that under the water his hands and feet are tied.

Bertrand Russell writes that the painful thing "about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

Again, we find in modern art and modern music a language which does not communicate.

Compassion gives us fresh perspective on what it means to be human, and helps us judge less harshly ourselves as well as the persons who impinge upon us.

Dac? vrem s? cunoa?tem pe cineva, trebuie s? avem cel pu?in disponibilitatea de a iubi acea persoan?

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Beneath our loquacious chatter, there is a silent language…Our common human language is not…something to do with vocal cords and speech. It is, rather, our sense of proportion, our balance, harmony and other aspects of simple and fundamental form.

Bilinçd???m?zdan gelecek kavray??lar? ya?amam?za alabilmek için, kendimize tek ba??na olabilme yetisi kazand?rmak zorunday?z.

Trzeba umie? milcze? o tym samym, a nie tylko o tym samym mówi?.

Perhaps, there was something missing in me, a lack of empathy without which even love and happiness are merely a part of that struggle toward championship.

To 'live', to be truly alive, it is not enough simply to breathe, to suffer, nor even to be happy; life is a secret that cannot be discovered on one's own. True living is done in pairs.

J'ai jamais aimé faire de la peine aux gens, je suis philosophe.

She must have said to herself that one can always rely on a gentleman when it's a question of not understanding a woman.