Quotes About Understanding

Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills, but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation.

A child who learns that the past has created the present and that the present will shape the future will be willing to explore other times beyond his own limited existence.

Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.

It's very hard to make money. I think people don't get that message.

Parenting is a process of mutual growth, during which parents and children grow on different levels through their interactions and through the elements they bring into one another's lives.

Thoughts can exist... feelings can exist... but words do not always exist.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.

Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

Love is...when you fall for the person inside the person...and keep falling

One of the things I believe is that as long as Raja and I are translating, her people and mine may have something to do besides going to war for embarrassing reasons.

There can be a reason for a reason already supplied and a reason for the reason for the initial reason.

Sometimes it is better to find the spot where we agree and build a relationship that will be the best medium for working through our difficulties.

Gandhi was a great man but he failed to understand two things: the value of the sword, and the danger from Islam.

Some say that society is divided into those who have and those who have not but wished they had. I believe a more fundamental division is between those who know and those who do not know and have no idea they do not know.

My mouth keeps forgetting what my head has learned.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.