Quotes About Understanding

Love doesn't demand; it accepts, Mara to Kamlio. Mistress of the Empire - The Empire Trilogy

I know, when we are young we cannot entertain the idea another's feelings can be as deep as our own. Our love is so much loftier, our pain so much more intense.

It's often said we take offense most in what we see of ourselves in others.

You've learned something very young, Prince, something that even older men rarely understand. You've learned that fear isn't a terrible-looking thing but something lovely and seductive.

I let my anger consume me." "It's understandable," she said. "It may be understandable," replied Pug, "but it is no more forgivable for being understandable.

Love is like a lot of things, it is always best done with the head. Save mindless efforts for mindless things.

Trying to guess the enemy's next move is useful; trying to guess what they are thinking is pointless.

It is the nature of things that many people are more interested in affixing blame than fixing the problem.

Znati svoje želje, i spoznati tren njihovog ostvarenja, znaci su velike mudrosti.

when you enter another's reality, you observe her rules. Then

Ljudi kažu da nas ?esto najviše vre?a deo sopstvenog lika u drugom ?oveku.

learn the nature of self, accept all aspects of self, then the mastery can begin. Denial of self is denial of all.

Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when 'tis achieved

I am not your brother. My brother Morvai died the night you were created, eledhel. And you know all that I have been since the day you left, as I know all that you have been.'.

The elf motioned Pug toward a gigantic platform. "There is much you must learn. A year shall you abide with us, and when you leave, you will come to power and understanding you only glimpse now. Without that teaching, you will not be able to survive the coming battle. With it, you may save two worlds.

Men love their fears. That is why they hold on to them so tightly. You've learned something very young, Prince, something that even older men rarely understand. You've learned that fear isn't a terrible-looking thing but something lovely and seductive.

Caleb had understood that for mothers, sons never truly grow up.

He studied his two friends, taking note of their freshly bruised countenances. 'All right. What happened?

When you're young,' Harry said, 'you just see things. There's nothing much to say about them. You don't realize then all the life that's gone into it.

the knowable community—to

Reality is infinite and we are finite and so there is a necessary mismatch between our knowledge of the world and the world itself.

The mistake of all the religions is to look outside the world for explanations of the world, rather than rethinking the world itself, so that it offers up its own explanations for itself. The world itself must be self-explanatory.

He hadn't altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.

In a field like philosophy, where understanding involves not so much the reception of knowledge but rather a transformation of the receiver itself, so that the receiver, which is to say the student, can generate the knowledge for him- or herself, then the physical presence of the teacher is essential.