Quotes About Understanding

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.

We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.

Reon Atescre of Sona Nyl had been slim and laughing-eyed, a lighthearted, fearless man who was not attracted to women, seeing her for what she was and not what he wanted her to be, and therefore an easy companion to her.

Humans assign words to things and pretend the words are adequate.

I like movies I can relate to.

I'm beginning to understand that the two of them squabble simply for amusement's sake.

In "Shadow of a Doubt," I was trying to describe the connection you feel when your eyes meet another person's. You project all kinds of things on those eyes, feel them seeing into and past you, sometimes feel the sex behind them too.

one of those mutual I-can-tell-you-are-a-super-sensitive-and-emotional-person-too sorts of connections.

Love is constantly saying you're sorry, even when you know damn well you're right.

I don't love you in the way you want to be loved. But never doubt that it's there. I love you unconditionally.

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

The best thing Dr. Folsom taught me (though I didn't realize it at the time) was not how to see nature but how to get along with people who see it differently. It is better to touch a heart than it is to teach a fact.

Our frustration with others is always greatest when we're frustrated with ourselves

You know what appeals to me about philosophy? Nobody wins.

Our frustration with others is always greatest when we're frustrated with ourselves.

Words are powerful instruments. Handle them and your understanding level of new information will grow in a spectacular way.

A sincere hug or a well-placed kiss can communicate a book of words in a single moment.

I want to point out that the main reason our modern society cannot give us true and lasting self-esteem is that it cannot provide us with a meaningful understanding of what the self is.

Only an idiot guesses or reasons or deduces ,' the Professor said, patiently.

He was a dog, but once you get to know them and you look deep into their eyes, year after year, you no longer see an animal; instead you begin to see the depth of any human capability of emotion. It is given freely, and the wealth of comfort it brings cannot be completely understood until it is taken from you.

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

We can't really definde good, can we? Good for one person might be ruination for another. The problem with our human eyes is that we can only see the right now. But God? He sees around the corner, over the hill, and clean to the horizon. He knows what's comin', an' He knows what we need to be prepared for what's comin'. So sometimes those things we face that we don't understand - the things we think of as bad - are really for our good down the line.