Quotes About Understanding

Un genio conversa con otro genio cara a cara, lo que no solo supone una alegría recíproca, sino también una dicha para el universo entero. Esa alegría existe y el universo existe también. El día que los genios no se reconozcan unos a otros, el mundo se oscurecerá y la Tierra dejará de dar vueltas sobre su eje

I felt as though a sympathetic hand were tending the wounds where thorns had stabbed me. . .

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.

mosquito-netted open windows was an enormous privilege. 'You must not think you are superior to them,' he would say. 'You are just

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.

Wisdom is an ethics of knowledge

I'm also not sure exactly where and I when I got the language for who and what I am. I don't remember how I learned the words gay, homo(sexual), fag, queer, etc. I just seemed to have picked them up and undertsood what they meant.

Only a shipwrecked person who has just escaped drowning could understand the psychology of someone who breaks out in laughter just because he is able to breathe

What we mean when we say terrible conditions is conditions which we are aware of as being terrible.

You can't force yourself into something you can't understand, you know.

It was K's idea that faces were a roadway between men.

the expression is something like an equation by which we show our relationship with others. It's a roadway between oneself and others. If it's blocked by a landslide, even those who have been at pains to travel it will think you are now some uninhabited, dilapidated house and perhaps pass by.

le visage est le pont jeté entre le moi et celui des autres

Wouldn't it be common sense to ask at once what I meant, without brooding over it?

For me, whatever you may say, you are the most important "other person." No, I do not mean it in a negative sense. I mean that the one who must first restore the roadway, the one whose name I had to write on the first letter, was first on my list of "others." (Under any circumstances, I simply did not want to lose you. To lose you would be symbolic of losing the world.)

If you did not want to, you should say a simple "no"; but by hesitating you implied that your consent was already half given.

The expression is something like an equation by which we show our relationship with others. It's a roadway between oneself and others. If it's blocked by a landslide, even those who have been at pains to travel it will think you are now some uninhabited, dilapidated house and perhaps pass by.

When the sister said that the sea was expressionless, the brother answered that that was not true at all, that it was the best of talkers.

No somos tan insensibles como para confundir los hombres vivos y los hombres ya procesados en rebanadas y salchichas.

Culoarea ochilor nu-i decât expresia cuvintelor.