Quotes About Understanding

Do you always have to keep your claws out and sharp? Has it ever occurred to you that some of us might just want to be friendly?

It's the same old conundrum. You couldn't ask questions about self-awareness until you became self-aware, but you couldn't become self-aware until you were able to grasp the concept of self-awareness.

Without being a cop, Sam Prichard wasn't really all that sure who he was.

Curiosity—actual curiosity—was one of the hallmarks of sentience and self-awareness

Real men don't read directions, don't ask for directions, and never let a lack of understanding stop them

know anything about, and so far, the

realizes it's her own loneliness that she sees in him.

Learn you will never, if attention you do not pay.

Moscow, Russia It is a commonly held belief that twins, especially identical ones, share an inherent understanding of their co-twin's emotional state. They report experiences of enhanced emotional or physical connection, such as having a feeling of something being wrong when their twin is in crisis.

The truth is, all I really want is someone who will care about me for who I am, rather than what I look like.

Some people said a lot in quiet voices, some said nothing in loud ones.

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

Insanity is applying a singular dimensional answer to a multi dimensional experience.

Revelation also comes in receiving greater understanding of the endowment as one seeks to comprehend its meaning.

I just want you to know that I will do anything to help you through this difficult time. But I need to learn what to say and what not to say, what to do and what not to do, so I can be an encouragement and not hurt you unintentionally. I am even willing to attend this group by myself to learn these things, but it would be much better if you would go too. Then we could discuss the experience and what we both learn from it.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who need certitude, and those who quest for understanding.

We now enter the Twilight Zone of psychology. Hundreds of theories of personality exist, but no one has yet successfully identified, or even defined, what personality is (Hall and Lindzey, 1957). Thus, there exists a myriad of psychological tests that measure something, but no one seems to quite know what it is.

When it comes to money, just having heard of something isn't enough; you've got to know what it means.

Love has nothing to do with money. It doesn't matter if you love your spouse or partner more than anything in the world. If the two of you have conflicting values about money and make financial decisions that fail to accommodate each other's feelings about the subject, you are going to have serious relationship problems.

Kirsty White.

Just as a particular racism can only really be defined by the victims of that racism, the deep truth of identity is only available to those who live that identity. Casting a non-minority actor to mimic that identity feels, to the progressive eye, like impersonation, and impersonation carries with it an element of mockery: or at least, it is reductive, lessening the complexity of that experience by channeling it through an actor who hasn't lived it.*

We have to know what's meant

Listening is an underrated asset. People these days, they don't listen as much as they should. I read a lot, I travel a lot and I'm always listening.