Quotes About Understanding

And you know all about love, Jaelen? I don't know shit, but I know I have a woman who knows all about it and I learn from her every day. I love going to class. - Parker & Jaelen

Today, I would say at last, this disciplinary Tourette's syndrome, where suddenly and even in the face of tremendous productivity architecture still blurts out a sense of shame, is starting to be understood as self-imposed and more likely to prolong paralysis than move the discipline further.

Love is what naturally happens between a good man and a good woman who spend a lifetime getting to know each other. Passion is just a momentary feeling that, once explored, is gone.

She looked; and it was as if new eyes had been put into her head.

I don't know which side everybody's on any more, and I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order. It doesn't mean that I don't wish you courage in your struggle. There are on both sides of this struggle men of goodwill. That is important to remember, some struggling for freedom, some struggling for safety.

In his view, the ancient Japanese way, where men would meet and "bow to each other for as much as half an hour speaking words of greeting, gradually moving closer together, understanding the necessity of entering another's consciousness carefully,"1 was a good one.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

But words must be found, for besides words there is almost nothing.

In the beginning was the Word", and the meaning of that designation is just this, that God has made Himself intelligible to us in a Person, not in a book.

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one. Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

But Ruby understands now, this inclination. This desire to slip away. To seclude herself. She understands how it feels to be an island, separate from everyone else, surrounded by nothing but water. Even when she is with people (at school, at Izzy's house, at the pool), she is aware of how alone she is. Nobody can reach her, not really. She and her mother are more similar than different, but she doesn't know how to tell her mom this. What words might explain she understands.

the inevitable and irrevocable consequences of their quiet cruelty. They were just kids, just girls then. They didn't understand that a single act of careless unkindness would have repercussions long after

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

There is only one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it...

Nothing has meaning except for the meaning you give it.

The first element of change is awareness. You can't change something unless you know it exists.

A husband and wife should resolve never to wrangle with each other; never to bandy words or indulge in the least ill-humour. Never! I say; NEVER. Wrangling, even in jest, and putting on an air of ill-humour merely to tease, becomes earnest by practice.

Someone said, "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

The heart can see things invisible to the eye.

For a true name holds true power.

But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.