Quotes About Understanding

O]ut of books / He taught me all the ignorance of men, / And how God laughs in heaven when any man / Says 'Here I'm learned; this, I understand; / In that, I am never caught at fault or doubt.

A mirror may be held in different lights by different hands; and, according to the position of those hands, will the light fall.

much as Flush tries to understand me when I tell him that barking and jumping may be unseasonable things.

The older he got, the simpler the world was revealed to be.

one must come to the understanding in the end that one was always insufficiently practiced, and yet one must sometimes act anyway. Practice itself was an act.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. —QUENTIN CRISP

I wondered who lonely women paid to listen. As with so much, it seemed as if the world had a solution for the one but not the other.

Marshal Reeves, watching me, snorted. "Live and learn, child," he said. "Everybody's worthy of respect.

It's hard not to like someone who's genuinely interested in you. Or genuinely interested in things, in general.

He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable to transmission through that inadequate medium, language.

I'm not concerned about any terrible things you might have done," he said quietly. "I'm concerned about the terrible things that happened to you.

Though I am otherwise relentlessly normal, I have one peculiarity: I get along well only with people who are smarter than me.

Once you absorb the maths, it's all perfectly clear.

I should of been chewing on my words some, so everybody else would have had a better chance of swallowing them.

He understands, also, that this offer represents a fundamentally wrong order to the universe. You should bow down and worship Jeoffry! "Right," the devil says. "I thought as much.

Silence is as good as an answer, angel.

Good thing for me you're not a murderer." I smiled. "I could learn.

It was perfectly possible to love someone objectly when you could barely stand to be in the room with them. Of all the mysteries of life, Sebastien thought, that one might be the greatest.

For all it was the answer he would have expected her to want, it did not seem to satisfy her.

How subjective the world must have been, then, when no one could remember the same events, and nobody would remember them for long.

His words had the ring of formality, and he knew she understood them for what they were. The sideways twitch of her head told him as much, and the slight smile that touched the corners of her eyes but didn't curve her lips.

Silent understanding: all he could give her now.

Sometimes people said an obvious thing, and what they meant by it wasn't obvious at all.

Riel considered Elspeth, and was considered in turn.