Quotes About Understanding

I'm starting to understand why certain people in the entertainment business reach a point where they say, 'I'm not going to do any more interviews.' I definitely understand that.

People are identifying not only with the trans movement, but also the Pfefferman family. What I am noticing is people are coming up on the street and talking about their life and their family, and they say, 'Your family is just like mine.'

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

I am more forgiving because I realize that all of our family histories - definitely mine - its populated with thieves and liars and incompetent people who werent bad people and who Im not ashamed of, but who are my family.

Novels often thin themselves out to a watery hue - some even start that way - and at times seem to only ride along the surface of things, giving us what we already know, reporting the news that is just news.

When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.

There is a very thin line between relationship and friendship.

When you start to think of revenge, you start to think of hate. I don't believe in hating people. It's a retrogressive thing.

I have learnt one thing in life: that if you love someone, you have to accept that person with his/her flaws.

I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you're not alone.

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

I realize that things happen for a reason.

Things happen in 'If This is a Man' that are beyond ordinary daily experience, but it is still us to whom they are happening, and the understanding Levi seeks is no different in kind from that sought by Shakespeare in 'King Lear', or Conrad in 'The Heart of Darkness'.

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.

Sometimes things happen in life, and you kind of need a friend.

Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot, in all conscience, accept any form of prejudice.