Quotes About Understanding

Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.

Everything is simple, if you arrange the facts methodically

The thing people don't seem to want anywhere nowadays...is anyone who's got a bit of ordinary common sense...but I often think that that's the only thing the world really needs-just a bit of common sense.

Miss Bulstrode had another faculty which demonstrated her superiority over most other women. She could listen.

To see ourselves as others see us!

You do think you know about everything," said her husband. I do," said Tuppence.

Things are simple as a rule

She used to say:"The young people think the old people are fools, but the old people KNOW the young people are fools!

There is, as Miss Marple would say, a lot of human nature in all of us.

One must have consideration for those less gifted than oneself.

The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.

The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.

The truth is, that one doesn't really know anything about anybody. Not even the people who are nearest to you...' 'Isn't that going a little too far--exaggerating too much?' 'I don't think it is. When you think of people, it is in the image you have made of them for yourself.

Do not antagonize your son! He is of an age to choose for himself. Because his choice is not your choice, do not assume that you must be right. If it is a misfortune—then accept misfortune. Be at hand to aid him when he needs aid. But do not turn him against you.

With a shock Iris realized suddenly that it was the first time in her life she had ever thought about Rosemary. Thought about her, that is, objectively, as a person. She had always accepted Rosemary without thinking about her. You didn't think about your mother or your father or your sister or your aunt. They just existed, unquestioned, in those relationships. You didn't think about them as people. You didn't ask yourself, even, what they were like.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Do you know this part of the world well?

If you look into somebody's soul by accident, you feel a bit embarrassed about cashing in.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details ... and they call the result intuition.

Men, they never think.

It was so hard to get an idea of people you had never seen. You had to rely on other people's judgment. ... Other people's impressions were no good to you. They might be just as true as yours but you couldn't act on them. You couldn't, as it were, use another person's angle of attack.

Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone.

The human and personal element can never be ignored.

The two words expressed volumes.