Quotes About Understanding

Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee. Sir James Mackintosh used to say, he believed the difference between one man and another was produced by the quantity of coffee he drank.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

I think you can lower your weapon now.

Because most artists have not told us of their intentions, and beacause those artists ( and patrons or agents) who have stated their intentions may not be fully reliable sources, and because we inevitably see things from our own points of view, think twice before you attribute intention to the artist [...].

Knowing is the key to caring, and with caring there is hope that people will be motivated to take positive actions. They might not care even if they know, but they can't care if they are unaware.

Right Understanding means feeling terrible, remembering pain is finite, and taking some solace from that remembering. And, when things are pleasant, even splendidly pleasant, remembering impermanence doesn't diminish the experience--it enhances it [p. 33]

One of the ways we build intimate relationships with other people is by sharing our fears with them, telling them the things that still frighten us. ... "When we begin to appreciate the ways in which people have been frightened in their lives, we can be compassionate toward them, rather than angry [p. 97].

Hatred will never cease by hatred, Only love will erase hatred, This is the eternal law.

The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf—Tribe Unknown

The Nez Perce say: "Every animal knows more than you do.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future. –Lumbee

B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me. Good night Gideon.

B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me. Good night Gideon.

Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.

Far and away the biggest threat to the ocean is ignorance. It's a lack of understanding that what we put in, what we take out matters—not just to the ocean, but matters to us. The ocean cannot be regarded as the planet's ultimate dumpster or the ultimate place to get free food.

People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing.

There are different kinds of truth. And if our kind is more mature than theirs, it's so only because we know that.

I know little of magic, Lady,' he said haltingly. 'I am but a woodcutter's son, and there is much that is not given to men to understand; but of this I am sure: there is more to things than we imagine. Beyond the stars are worlds without number, perhaps, and had I never sought to look beyond my own I should be the poorer for it.

If nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be.

It's not enough just to learn what there ISN'T; we need to know what there IS.

Why, if nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be!

Technically he was right, Jarel knew. So why should it seem so important?