Quotes About Understanding

Men of science spend much time and effort in the attempt to disentangle words from their metaphorical and traditional associations;

facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

But once you've got the How, the Why drives it home.

If I can't make you see the thing in the right perspective this time I'll chuck it for good.

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that?—I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home.

It is at this point we begin to understand what St. Hilary means in saying of the Trinity: "Eternity is in the Father, form in the Image and use in the Gift.

Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.

Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.

I'm quite all right. I'm not even scared. You see, I've learned from looking around, there is something worse than loneliness--and that's the fear of it.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

I am at just that interesting age where i cannot keep out of things. I, too, must be in the know; I, too, must quote and sigh and nod wisely.

Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them. I

Es una lástima que el brillo de los ojos de una persona solo sea el brillo de los ojos de una persona, y que uno no pueda descifrar con una sola mirada qué lo produce.

After all, the poor boy's doing the best he can. Probably he grew up in the hill country, and never had no larnin'. I bet they had to throw him on his back to get shoes on him.

For my parents, Iris and Robert Roberts, who taught me that there is only one human race.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

Look, you know the anger is unconstructive, don't you? So you have to defuse it. And you do this either by trying to understand your own reaction, just why you are getting so annoyed, or by asking yourself why it is he finds it necessary to behave so provocatively.

She would have lacked that inner warmth which somehow survives despite the relentless drudgery and constant proximity to human suffering. Her patients to her would have been flesh, bones, blood, not people.

Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes they throw off like sparks... But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.

George Herbert said, "He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.

When we take the perspective of others, we can empathize with them.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.