Quotes About Understanding

We can be moved only by way of our veils. We are touched through our veils.

This does not mean that I can not see what you see. On the contrary, it is because I cannot see what you see that I can see at all. The discovery that you are the unrepeatable center of your own vision is simultaneous with the discovery that I am the center of my own.

Finite speakers come to speech with their voices already trained and rehearsed. They must know what they are doing with the language before they can speak it. Infinite speakers must wait to see what is done with their language by the listeners before they can know what they have said. Infinite speech does not expect the hearer to see what is already known to the speaker, but to share a vision the speaker could not have had without the response of the listener.

Be kind to everyone you meet, because we're all battling something.

I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you know it. I want to understand the meaning of your experience, to walk in your shoes, to feel things as you feel them, to explain things as you explain them. Will you become my teacher and help me understand?

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

I ran my fingers through my hair. We'd been together for nearly twenty minutes, and I still didn't know what he was talking about. "Sit here," I told Bigs. "And don't chew on the furniture while I'm gone.

Never deprecate another person's sufferings even when imaginary.

The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see.

To the future young folks of Lowenwood: I wish you all love, hope, happiness, And a long and healthful life. May your understanding of mankind Be broadened through your association with And, I am sure, your love of Lowenwood.

Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

Es pura arrogancia de nuestra parte tratar de juzgar la conducta de otros pueblos. Debemos adoptar una actitud de tolerancia hacia las prácticas de otras culturas.

No hay razón para pensar que si el mundo es redondo todos deben saberlo. De igual manera, no hay razón para pensar que si hay verdades morales todos deben conocerlas.

Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

I want to be, if I can, as sure of the world--the real world--around me as is possible. Now, you can only attain that to a certain degree, but I want the greatest degree of control.

A Horseman should know neither fear, nor anger.

When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this--instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy--we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy.

sudden, spontaneous eye contact is a sign that two people should talk.

When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.

In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up

Craftwork--it is neither as easy as faith, nor as sure as science.

To me the great divide is between the talkative and the quiet. Do they just say everything that's on their minds, even before it's on their minds? Sometimes I think I could just turn up my head like a Walkman so what's going on there could be heard by others. But there would still be a difference. For inside the head they are talking to people like them, and I am talking to someone like me: he is quiet and doesn't much like being talked at; he can't conceal how easily he gets bored.

I worked so hard to understand it that it must be true.