Quotes About Understanding

A man with an experience is not at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

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the more I learned, the more I came to realize that speaking in other tongues was not only a spiritual law uncovered; it was also a spiritual foundation upon which everything else regarding spiritual gifts and their operation rested. Understanding

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

look at me,' said Fitz. 'You lost me somewhere around "substructive". Is that actually a word?

And then things happened quickly. Too quickly, on so many wildly differing scales, for any single observer ever to fully comprehend them. And not necessarily in the entirely correct order, besides. . . In

It must have been quite terrible for you, my dear,' I said, giving her a companionable and comforting pat on the head.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

The key to really learning how to deal with difficult people is to understand that it is OK to not understand why they are the way they are.

Understanding arises out of silence rather than words.

Why do stories persuade? There are several explanations: First, people deduce a story's logic by themselves. We know from research and common sense that self-discovery is much more powerful than having people talk at you.

Our surmises regarding the subtle functions of neural processes within the brain are profoundly constrained by the fact that the brain did not evolve in order to understand itself. The complex organization of the brain evolved as a consequence of our sensorial and muscled engagement with the landscapes that surround us.

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.

On the most basic level, men and women are the same. We both need to love and be loved, to have someone we feel we matter to, and who matters to us.

Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.

They fed him a diet made up entirely of knowledge.

No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently. That's what I'm saying.

The wise say many things, enough to confuse the rest of us

She sat, rediscovering the fullness of her first tongue in one long submersion. Again and again she would pause on a word Melio uttered. She would roll it around in her mind, feeling the contours of it. At times her mouth gaped open, her lips moving as if she were drinking in his words instead of breathing.

No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

think he understands that you wouldn't do that

She had learned long ago that when something wouldn't make itself clear to her, what she needed to do was walk away from it for a short time.