Quotes About Understanding

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.

I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.

I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

I didn't realise how important stupid people are in your life, because you ask yourself, what made stupid people so stupid? What made them the way they are?

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.

It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

Knowledge of life brings confidence, and Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centred.

The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.

and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

Knowledge of every aspect of human life, physical and spiritual is plentiful today.

There is a basic problem that a lot of Western monks and nuns become ordained without really understanding or appreciating what the monastic life is all about.