Quotes About Understanding

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating little friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Scientific facts are few and far between, popular facts are commonplace and not usually facts at all.

Only much later did I understand that this raw material is the very marrow of literature, and that, from it, it's possible to create an interior narrative. I say "interior" because at that time chronicles were considered to be where truth was to be found. "Interior" expression had not yet been born.

Wonder 'do we - by the same words - mean the same things?

It's good that I should have to come some way to meet you.

But in today's world a separatist option does not exist; a version of this common ground is where we all, finally, must live if we are to live at all. And yet the loudest voices are the ones that deny its very existence...

Could she ever know him? Could he ever know her? Or would they always hold fast to what they imagined of each other so that life together would for each be more lonely than life alone?

Then her story and the way she told it had touched his heart. That she should have tried to understand - to offer help - and been turned away so often. Oh, he would not turn her away, he would take what she had to give and count himself rich for it.

She needs to leave him alone when he wants to be left alone. But then, do they meet in order for him to be left alone? Do they take trains and aeroplanes and drive for hours so that he should be left alone? If what he wants is to be left alone, then why do they meet at all? Everybody worries so about separation, but the problem is not the separations; it is how they are when they're together

Seek knowledge even if it's in MACS0647-JD.

Language is the key to the heart of people.

the B sign).

People aren't stupid. They're ignorant.

The mind is, by far, the most complex tool ever created. The day we'll discover every minutia of its inner workings is the day we'll know everything there is to know about this universe.

To share wisdom with the immature is like giving goldbricks to a child.

Han iyo fikirbaa dadka kala horee, Ha is quudhsanoo, Ha is liidin waligaa.

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature.

Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)

But the bit I liked best was where it said it's impossible to define love because it takes so many forms and is so complicated.

In all our times together so far, this was the first time I felt we were enjoying ourselves, without strain or any sense of difference of age or deference, concession or inequality. It was, I thought afterwards, the first time we had met as ourselves, untrammelled, unguarded and in tune.

It's like a sleepover, when you feel you can say all kinds of things, because the darkness hides your blushes.