Quotes About Understanding

'Are you lost daddy?' I asked tenderly. 'Shut up,' he explained.

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.

Friendships aren't perfect, and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?

Reason is an emotion for the sexless.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

Hindsight is always zo/20.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimation, and yours too.

Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.