Quotes About Understanding

We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [...] understanding.

Who makes you least confused? Calvin There was no hesitation here. When I'm with Calvin, I don't mind being me You mean he makes you more you, don't you? I guess you could put it that way.

One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how wrong somebody is—how shallow it is to look at the Resurrection as a mere, explainable fact—when I see only the mistakenness of others, then I am blinded to their being children of God, who are just as valued and treasured as are those who more nearly agree with me.

An I Q cannot measure artistic ability. A potential Picasso may be a flop at objective vocabulary or number tests. An I Q does not measure a capacity for love...How do we teach a child - our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh: to love.

I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things.

The author & the reader know each other: they meet on the bridge of words

We do not know what things look like, as you say," the beast said. "We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

I like to understand things," Meg said. "We all do. But it isn't always possible.

Think of the person you love the most in the world. Do you really see them visually? Or don't you see on a much deeper level? It's lots easier to visualize people we don't know very well.

You must understand with your hearts. With the whole of yourselves, not just a fragment.

That was surely the purest kind of kything. Mr. Jenkins had never had that kind of communion with another human being, a communion so rich and full that silence speaks more powerfully than words.

Do you think things always have an explanation?" "Yes. I believe that they do. But I think that with our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations. But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

An old ass knows more than a young colt

The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone

mother carefully turned over four slices of French toast, then said in a steady voice, "No, Meg. Don't hope it was a dream. I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn't he?

Because we suddenly see that making everything all right would NOT make everything all right. We would not be human beings. We would then be no more than puppets obeying the strings of the master puppeteer. We agree sadly that it is a good thing that we are not God; we do not have to understand God's ways, or the suffering and brokenness and pain that sooner or later come to us all.

The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point.

Oh, Meg, you are a moron, Calvin said. Don't you know you're the nicest thing that's happened to me in a long time?