Quotes About Understanding

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

On ne parle pas assez quand il en est temps et les âmes se boucanent côte à côte.

Concibe la memoria involuntaria como el lugar de la palabra verdadera, pero mientras el filósofo tropieza con esa intuición, el novelista, desplazando los contornos de la lengua, nos la hará comprender.

What is not clear is not French.

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but looking outward in the same direction

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Man's "progress" is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.