Quotes About Understanding

But you see, Meg, just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion.

Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.

We human creatures can make watches and clocks and sensitive timing devices, but we don't understand what we're timing.

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

Why is it, she wondered, that things that hurt people make them deeper and more understanding?

We are lost unless we can recover compassion, without which we will never understand charity. We must find, once more, community, a sense of family, of belonging to each other. No wonder our kids are struggling to start communes.

We want nothing from you that you do without grace," Mrs Whatsit said, "or that you do without understanding.

Plato also wrote—and I lettered this in firm italic letters and posted it on my dorm-room door—All learning which is acquired under compulsion has no hold upon the mind.

We don't 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.

Qui plus sait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

But an acceptable Christianity is not Christian; a comprehensible God is no more than an idol. I don't want that kind of God.

He is : frog: unworried by the self-consciousness with which the human animal is stuck; it is our blessing and our curse; not only do we know, we know that we know. And we are not often willing to face how little we know.

Le cæur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate.

Oh, my darling, you're not dumb," her father answered. "You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace.

That's it, isn't it?" Mimi asked. "Someone to talk with. Someone who can talk about the things in our own concerns.

Let us not try to understand the pattern, only rejoice in its beauty.

Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

God go with you." "I don't believe in God." "That's all right. I do." "I'm glad.

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.

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers

I don't understand ypur feelings. I'm trying to, but I don't. It must be extremly unpleasant to have feelings.

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.