Quotes About Understanding

Not to know is bad not to wish to know is worse.

The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.

We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles,one would hardly see anybody,

It is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

Fear is incomplete knowledge

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition.

The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

How little you might know of a person after living in the same house with them!

How fast you go. You arrive at a conclusion much sooner than I would permit myself to do.

Was bad language used?" asked Colonel Melchett. "It depends on what you call bad language." "Could you understand it?" I asked. "Of course I could understand it." "Then it couldn't have been bad language," I said. Mrs. Price Ridley looked at me suspiciously. "A refined lady," I explained, "is naturally unacquainted with bad language.

A diary is useful for recording the idiosyncrasies of other people—but not one's own.

I know when a couple are really in love with each other. And by that I do not mean just sexually attracted. There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love, but cannot succeed by itself.

No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.