Quotes About Understanding

To love your neighbor is to see your neighbor. To see somebody, really to see somebody, you have to love somebody.

UNBELIEF IS AS much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.

If it please you, the lady's name again? says Reginald. His quill is poised. If God had come to Reginald and not to Moses in the burning bush, he would have asked him how to spell the great I AM so he'd be sure he had it right.

A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man

Experience is a keen teacher;

No man whose vision is bounded by colour can come into contact with what is highest and best in the world.

All of us are part of a big story. It is a story that is much bigger than we know. Do not confuse the life you live with the story. Do not be afraid to leave the story. You may get scared sometimes because you fail to understand that what is scared is not you. It's the story. The story looks for a way to travel. The story is afraid you will let go.

But what was even worse was not understanding the thought behind the words.

Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood

Fredrich Nietzsche

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

I want to be inside your darkest everything

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.

Alles prüfe der Mensch, dass er Danken für alles lernt und verstehe die Freiheit, aufzubrechen, wohin er will.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.

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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

Love, too, has to be learned.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.