Quotes About Understanding

I don't think. I know.

He said at last, when Miss Gilchrist had twittered into silence:

Some day she will know how wise old men are.

What you've been saying. It's just words. It doesn't mean anything.

But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

If you would use your grey cells, and see the whole case clearly as I do, you too would perceive it, my friend.

You shall know all that I know, but I would prefer that you should come at the truth by your own efforts — not by my leading you by the hand.

Two people who have suffered unhappiness have a great bond in common.

Mladi ljudi pripadaju svojoj generaciji. Možemo mi misliti da mnogi njihovi potezi nisu mudri, ali moramo prihvatiti njihove odluke.

Melchett is a wise man. He knows that when it is a question of an irate middle-aged lady, there is only one thing to be done—listen to her. When she had said all that she wants to say, there is a chance that she will listen to you.

U moje vreme ako je neko bio lud, bio je lud, i nismo se služili nau?nom terminologijom da bismo to ublažili.

He didn't say anything at all about my having been listening—and how he knew I was listening I can't think. He'd never once looked in that direction. I was rather relieved he didn't say anything. I mean, I felt all right with myself about it, but it might have been a little awkward explaining to him.

She went out of the window again. Griselda turned to Miss Marple. "Why did you step on my foot?" The old lady was smiling. "I thought you were going to say something, my dear. And it is often so much better to let things develop on their own lines. I don't think, you know, that that child is half so vague as she pretends to be. She's got a very definite idea in her head and she's acting upon it.

But I did really want to know. I mean, it's interesting, don't you think, to know all about people? What they feel and think, I mean, not just who they are and what they do.

Todos nos vemos en el espejo de distintos ángulos, pero estamos todos ante él, y por lo tanto vemos también lo mismo.

Meu amigo Hastings, aquele sobre quem lhe falei, costumava me dizer que eu era uma ostra humana. Mas ele era injusto. Sobre os fatos, eu não retenho nada comigo. Mas cada um os interpreta a seu modo.

there was a good deal going on underneath the quietness.

Well, go on, Aunt Jane; haven't you got anything to say?' 'In a minute, dear, said Miss Marple. 'I am afraid I have counted wrong. Two purl, three plain, slip one, two purl?yes, that's right. What did you say, dear?' 'What is your opinion?' 'You wouldn't like my opinion, dear. Young people never do, I notice. It is better to say nothing.

Muitas pessoas não me parecem nem boas, nem más, mas apenas bastante tolas, sabe?

He's a zealous fellow, but zeal can't really take the place of brains.

If you come to a Vicarage, you ought to be prepared to find a Vicar.

I sat there and my love to him poured out more and more, and, lo, he flew down to a stump, and then to my knee. I knew beyond a shadow of doubt that the important thing is the love that goes out from oneself.

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.