Quotes About Understanding

You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run, and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other, and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse, it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil.

I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

No tears and the writer, no tears and the reader.

Thought flies and words go on foot.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take of care themselves.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly.

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.

Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so.

...perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most.

Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy's heart instead of her tummy.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

There's more to the truth than just the facts.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

To speak French does not mean wits.