Quotes About Understanding

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people.

It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.

Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive.

Why are they like that?" I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek. "I don't know," Cico answered, "except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem to want to hurt each other—and it's worse when they're in a group.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

Understand is not the word; you are right, you can never really 'understand' about someone, anyone, even yourself. It is best to believe in them as human; feel that they are alive like you and need warmth, concern.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Little Friend of All the World.

For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'GradyAre sisters under their skins!

I keep six honest serving men(They taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and WhenAnd How and Where and Who.

Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth,When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!

Every woman knows all about everything.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

You're not allowed to chart love. The reason … is because we think of love as a binary thing: You're either in love, or you're not in love. You love, or you don't love. I think the reality is that love is a process

I like the way everything is clear and concise, you'll always be forgiven but you must know the rules

Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by; children who do not understand this often do wrong things, and then the dolls are hurt and abused and lost; and when this happens dolls cannot speak, nor do anything except be hurt and abused and lost. If you have any dolls, you should remember that.

Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.

Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.