Quotes About Understanding

Obscure words should be defined in texts or made clear from context. But the reading vocabulary of the average citizen is larger than the writing vocabulary of the typical author.

The most important thing I have to say is that you should not take too literally what is said in this book. Every child is different, every parent is different, every illness or behavior problem is somewhat different from every other. All I can do is describe the most common developments and problems in the most general terms. Remember that you are more familiar with your child's temperament and patterns than I could ever be.

Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "discourse communities" are often gated,so it's the good writer's job to offer readers a set of keys.

It is worthwhile studying other peoples, because every understanding of another culture is an experiment with our own.

Science tells us much, but without an absolute communion, a thorough accord and responsive affinity between human soul and plant soul there never can be a thorough understanding of the nature of plants.

Tolerância universal é indiferença. Quem tolera tudo, é porque não se importa com nada'.

Por que se gosta de um autor? Gosta-se de um autor quando, ao lê-lo, tem-se a experiência de comunhão. Arte é isso: comunicar aos outros nossa identidade íntima com eles. Ao lê-lo eu me leio, melhor me entendo. Somos do mesmo sangue, companheiros no mesmo mundo. Não importa que o autor já tenha morrido há séculos... [...] Nasci neste tempo, mas minha alma ficou num lugar do passado que eu muito amei.

Ler rapidamente aquilo que o autor levou anos para pensar é um desrespeito. [...] Há frases que resumem uma vida. Por isso é preciso ler vagarosamente, prestando atenção nas idéias que se escondem nos silêncios que há entre as palavras.

O silêncio é como uma taça vazia que, por ser vazia, permite que a pessoa que está sofrendo recolha nela todas as suas lágrimas, que nós não conhecemos.

Eu leio antropofagicamente: quero devorar aquele que escreveu

era incompreensível o fato de que nas orações da noite que sua mãe orava com ele apenas os seres humanos fossem mencionados.

Os silêncios são sempre embaraçosos porque nunca se sabe o que o outro está pensando...

O ato de ouvir exige humildade de quem ouve. E a humildade está nisso: saber, não com a cabeça, mas com o coração, que é possível que o outro veja mundos que nós não vemos.

Learning to read faces should be compulsory in schools so you can decipher what people are really thinking.

W isn't Wilhelmina: it stand for Walt! It's a sign specially for me ...

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

Our experiences and ideas tend to be common but not deep, or deep but not common.

There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.

Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.

There is, in truth, no difference between esoteric knowledge and all the rest of man's knowledge and proficiency. This esoteric knowledge is no more of a secret for the average human being than writing is a secret for those who have never learned it.

Little is accomplished if one tries to understand these words theoretically. Much more can be gained when one creates sacred moments in life when one is willing to energetically fill one's soul with the living content of such words.