Quotes About Understanding

ACCEPTATION  (ACCEPTA'TION)   n.s.[from accept.]1. Reception, whether good or bad. This large sense seems now wholly out of use.

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not.

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

ABLEPSY  (A'BLEPSY)   n.s.[   Gr.] Want of sight, natural blindness; also unadvisedness.Dict.

Parents never give allowances for an innocent passion.Swift.6. Established

The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical.

Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.

ACCIPIENT  (ACCI'PIENT)   n.s.[accipiens, Lat.] A receiver, perhaps sometimes used for recipient.Dict.

Is not friendship the basis of my Love?

And yet all I have said is but  from common reading. And, let me ask, why, because we know but little, we are to be supposed to know nothing?

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it could furnish him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, or ornaments, or play-withs, but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

but if you love someone... you would keep giving them one more CHANCE and another and another and always one more.

Life's truths cannot always be reduced to 12-point Times Roman.

She hadn't been taught to have prejudices, so she didn't.

You'd probably be pretty good at it. But even with terrific language skills, you couldn't come close to describing what it's like to be a team player, Griff. Because you don't know.

last to know, but he usually wants to know." "Knowing wouldn't have made a difference

great leader knows the value of holding his own counsel and listening. He doesn't reveal what he's thinking until he knows the minds of those around him. "How so, Dabney?

Marriage has taught me that women are the only ones who apologize.

Indeed, the exigencies of female tenderness are such as virtually to guarantee the man's absolution by the woman--not on her terms, but on his. Moreover, the man's confession of fear or failure tends to mystify the woman's understanding not only of the power dimensions of the relationship between herself and this particular man, but of the relations of power between men and women in general.

There were others like her. Of course there were. How had she ever thought there would not be?

You really don't understand what it's like to have bad parents, do you?

because in point of fact we would have come flying if we had known remotely how much he was suffering.