Quotes About Understanding

Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.

There was a long pause. Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English. The word for what? I just said I don't know it!

Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)

For only to the extent that we empathize do we have the right to speak about a matter.

There is no truer, warmer pleasure in this world than to behold a great soul opening up towards oneself.

He who wants to recognize what is alive and describe it, seeks first to drive the spirit out of it. Then, he holds the parts in his hands. But missing is the spirit's band.

The world is so waste and empty, when we figure only towns and hills and rivers in it; but to know of some one here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence,—this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

I have spent the day well just looking and looking. It is the same in art as in life. The deeper one penetrates, the broader grows the view.

My friend!" I exclaimed, "man is but man; and, whatever be the extent of his reasoning powers, they are of little avail when passion rages within, and he feels himself confined by the narrow limits of nature. It were better, then — but we will talk of this some other time," I said, and caught up my hat. Alas! my heart was full; and we parted without conviction on either side. How rarely in this world do men understand each other! August

He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only. It is the sole source of everything of our strength, happiness, and misery. All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own. May

The highest achievement possible to man is the full consciousness of his own feelings and thoughts, for this gives him the means of knowing intimately the hearts of others.

The eye is the worst way to judge.

Es ist ein großer Unterschied, ob ich lese zum Genuss und Belebung oder zur Erkenntnis und Belehrung.

El diablo es viejo; envejeced, pues, para comprenderlo.

Where sense fails it's only necessary [1995] To supply a word, and change the tense.

O happy he, who still renews The hope, from Error's deeps to rise forever! That which one does not know, one needs to use; And what one knows, one uses never.

It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries,to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.

It is a great folly to hope that other men will harmonize with us; I have never hoped this. I have always regarded each man as an independent individual, whom I endeavored to understand with all his peculiarities, but from whom I desired no further sympathy. In this way have I been enabled to converse with every man, and thus alone is produced the knowledge of various characters and the dexterity necessary for the conduct of life.

Men always believe, when they hear words, [2565] There must be thought behind them, too.

Man despises What he never comprehends, And the Good and the Beautiful vilipends, Finding them often hard to measure: Will the dog, like man, snarl his displeasure?

Certe volte mi accade di non poter capire come un altro possa volerle bene, abbia il diritto di volerle bene, mentre io l'amo così esclusivamente, così intensamente e non conosco, non so, e non ho altro che lei.

Çok zaman gö?sümü parçalamak beynimi da??tmak istiyorum; biz insanlar birbirimiz için ne kadar az ?ey yapabiliyoruz! ?çimde sevgi, sevinç, co?kunluk ve s?cakl?k yoksa bunu bana kimse veremiyor. Kalbim mutluluk içinde olsa bile, kar??mda so?uk ve cans?z duran kimseyi mutlu edemiyorum.

?nsanlar?n birbirleri için pek az ?ey ifade etmesi bende genellikle gö?sümü parçalamak, beynimi da??tmak iste?i uyand?r?yor. Ah, kar??mdakine geçiremedi?im sevgi, sevinç, ?efkat ve hazz? kar??mdaki de bana sunamaz, tüm kalbim mutlulukla dolup ta?sa bile, kar??mda k?l? k?p?rdamadan duran so?uk birini mutlu edemem.

Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.