Quotes About Understanding

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

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

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

Was this what it meant to have the eye? To be able to discern a distinction in quality so subtle as to be invisible to the man on the street?

What about the way he tried to raise his arm while looking at Jeff? Did he remember that? What had he been trying to do? Signal? Beckon? Acknowledge? Thank? Even if everything that had happened at the beach was a blur, or a blank, Jeff had no doubt that somewhere in that man lingered a remnant of that canceled gesture.

You listened so patiently. I suppose I want to know. What do you think? You did what anyone would have done, I said. It was the closest thing to a benediction I could offer. The fact that I didn't think it true, didn't make a difference.

Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

You ask What is life? That is the same as asking What is a carrot? A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you dont have a passport.

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesnt understand.

The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist—that's what I keep repeating and insisting upon. Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery. An artist observes, selects, guesses and synthesizes.

No culture should be romanticized or denigrated: like all others, Indians should be understood and evaluated on their own terms

When you speak someone's language, they get you. And the passion is contagious.

Look for the whole story and you'll get a lot closer to the truth.

There has always been a fuss. The difference is that now you and others are listening.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all." - Marie Antoinette

the deep division that exists in the human race, regardless of any other more obvious distinction, between those for whom books are an obsession, and those who are prepared, good-humouredly enough, to tolerate their existence.

She saw that supreme dignity - and love - lay in tolerance.

Certainly, it is impossible to understand the course of the Powder Treason from now on unless one takes into account the magnetism of Robert Catesby.

Counterintuitive though it may sound, joy can also arise from properly understanding impermanence. The Buddha says: 'When, by knowing the impermanence, change, fading away, and cessation of forms, one sees … with proper wisdom that forms … are all impermanent, suffering, and subject to change, joy arises.