Quotes About Understanding

To keep your marriage brimming / With love in the loving cup, / Whenever you're wrong, admit it; / Whenever you're right, shut up.

It's always good to have a dog at your side. You can chatter away and people will just assume you're talking to your dog. Today my dog and I were having a philosophical discussion, even though I doubted seriously that we'd be mistaken for Diogenes and Rataplan.

Tails often say a lot more than mere words.

Referring to my notes, I said, "When you

Agonies are one of my changes of garments; I do not ask the wounded person how he feels...I myself become the wounded person.

Beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam,

Evolution stops at the neck.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Los llaneros son reservados con la gente que acaban de conocer —le respondió el médico—. Ten paciencia.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The menu is not the meal.

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.

I've decided that I can also touch the hearts of many - dead people, but the living, too. (Cameryn Mahoney)

And all I need now is intellectual intercourse, a soul to dig the hole much deeper

She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.

Metaforen är ett av tankens väsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mörker. Men denna belysning blir ibland så klar att den bländar istället för avslöjar.

Lanark said irritably, "You seem to understand my questions, but your answers make no sense to me." "That's typical of life, isn't it?

I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to know who and what I am.

Central to these was and is the claim that it is only possible to understand the dominant moral culture of advanced modernity adequately from a standpoint external to that culture.

There has been much debate on the matter, but the present state of understanding is that no useful information can ever emerge from a black hole." ~"Understanding Space & Time

Some people get it. Most people never will. But that's art.

To Sky, Clown had become something to be understood; something to be dissected and parameterised. Clown, he now recognised, was something like the bubble-drawing the dolphin had made in the water: a projection carved from light rather than sound.

Surely you can hear him now?