Quotes About Understanding

who knows you better than your own brother?

It was always her failure for not being able to talk to us, never ours for not being able to understand her.

Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.

There's no data to suggest that I can make you love me whatever I do.

Like they say, you never know a person till you've done time with them.

My education, my father liked to point out, was wider than it was deep.

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff.

Over the years I've come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we've done and more to do with who they are.

We used to believe that memories are best retrieved in the same place where they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore. But

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable

Sam really knew how to handle people, I thought in admiration. He was so self-assured, confident and articulate, but he always listened to what I had to say as if it was the most interesting thing in the world and never spoke down to me. He made me feel important. Or was he simply saying what I wanted to hear like he did with Spencer?

persuade Cassie to allow his mother to have more input. Cassie

The other important thing to understand is that as humans we see only a segment of reality in the greater cosmic scheme of things, so we are really never in a position to judge anyone or anything.

I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find my purpose or I will go mad in this green, godless place.

You will treat me with respect. He didn't say anything for a moment. What does that mean? he finally asked. She looked over at him. Do I need to explain that, your lordship? I would think an earl of your reputed stature would know the meaning of respect.

El emparejamiento de los cuerpos no llevaba necesariamente a la unión de las mentes.

So much talking makes it hard to listen.

Is it better to not get to know them?' 'No. It's not. It's sharking your responsibility, and it's disrespectful. Get to know them, and then you fully understand the price you're asking them to pay.

Why doesn't the fact that I'm human matter to human beings

It was as if the small differences mattered more than the really big ones—like you had to recognize something before you could hate it properly. No

Imagine if we all walked around looking at strangers and thinking, You could have been my son or daughter. Imagine.

You could only ever see a thing when you were standing outside of it.

Sara was reminded of yet another one of Will's traits, which was that he had an uncanny knack for keeping his mouth shut when he didn't know what to say. This resulted in the sort of awkward moments that made Sara's dating life look downright ebullient.