Quotes About Understanding

Love has traditionally been the domain of poets, artists, and philosophers, but in the last 50 years the terrain of relationships has increasingly been mapped by psychologists.

You have to know the things you don't know. You have to figure out what the questions are before you can start looking for answers.

Army instructors are taught that if the student fails to learn, it is because the instructor failed to teach properly.

you respect a man who says what he believes, even if you disagree with it?

A" would go out to everybody, while "B" would go only to those people who were supposed to survive, people who understood what it was all about, or who would accept their survival and get on with things with the rest of the crew.

Wet streets don't cause rain, do they?

After he got hammered one night at a high place about Lens Lake called the Grade, his parents found him standing in the kitchen. What if there was a language with only one word in it? he asked. It would be easy to learn, said his mother. And with that word they would say everything every time they spoke, said Pierre. Yeah, that would be some language, said his father. What are you on? Just drinking, said Pierre. Just good old American drinking.

Louise closed her eyes. She could not define what she was feeling but knew no other way to express it than to say that she loved him. So that's what she said. It occurred to her that you only get glimpses of love, your whole life, just bits and pieces.

He had a way of becoming wooden and emotionless just when she needed him to be the opposite.

Behaving as if you are better than others shows a lack of regard for other people.

History, unlike faith, cannot be built upon foundations of sand.

So; in the beginning was the Word, but ten nanoseconds later there was a twelve-volume dictionary, and ten nanoseconds after that a Library of Congress, with 90 per cent of the books in foreign languages. It's probably not possible after such a lapse of time to find out what the original Word was. Given the consequences, however, it could well have been oops.

How careless of me! By which she meant that she had deduced that he had found [them] in his pocket and pitied him for needing to be forever in the right.

It had all dropped into place, like the last bit of the jigsaw, which you thought all along was a bit of left-hand sky, but when you turn it over you realise it's the last chunk of right-hand sea, or the sky tricksily reflected in the surface of the pond.

New opportunities for innovation open up when you start the creative problem-solving process with empathy toward your target audience—whether

Next time she'd have to ask him to keep the light on while he did it, so she could watch his face. That was the best part of the whole thing as far as she was concerned, the way a guy's face contorted so violently and then relaxed, as if some terrible mystery had just been solved.

They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself.

Something that had possibly caused the distance between us, but might also bring us back together.

Kissing her just then felt perfectly normal and completely self-explanatory, the only possible course of action.

NO SHOES? WE LOVE YOU!

No one knows what love is, he told me. If someone says they do, they're full of shit.

It is a lesson that one has to learn continually in New Orleans. Things are always more complex than they seem.

Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge.

You're better equipped for this world than I am, she said. I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.