Quotes About Understanding

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them, you will not know them, And what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys. — Chief Dan George

Say nothing if you don't understand, stay silent if you do.

unconditional love asks nothing, not even that it be returned.

Experience is algorithmically incompressible.

Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully.

Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect.

Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had changed nothing, but what I had learned had changed everything, and I understood that it could not have been otherwise. If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as the players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.

Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along that I expect.

We experienced events in an order, and perceived their relationship as cause and effect. They experienced all events at once, and perceived a purpose underlying them all. A minimizing, maximizing purpose.

Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had changed nothing, but what I had learned had changed everything.

Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don't matter. There's no technological shortcut.

You, I hope, are one of those explorers. You, I hope, found these sheets of copper and deciphered the words engraved on their surfaces. And whether or not your brain is impelled by the air that once impelled mine, through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

experience isn't merely the best teacher; it's the only teacher.

The answer was simple. It was the difference between sympathy and empathy. Carl

S]kill at debate isn't the same as maturity.

The past has left its traces on the world, and we only have to know how to read them.

Forgive me, Lord, for being sharp to a man who sought only to assist me. I ask for your help in being patient with those who believe women helpless.

But the only way to learn an unknown language is to interact with a native speaker, and by that I mean asking questions, holding a conversation, that sort of thing.

When Kokwa told the story, he didn't merely use words; he used the sound of his voice, the movement of his hands, the light in his eyes. He told you the story with his whole body, and you understood it the same way. None of that was captured on paper; only the bare words could be written down. And reading just the words gave you only a hint of the experience of listening to Kokwa himself, as if one were licking the pot in which okra had been cooked instead of eating the okra itself.

He had come to visit every day, even though she refused to see him at first, so that he wouldn't be absent when she did want to see him.

After I've translated all that I know into this language, the patterns I seek should become evident.

Dana nodded. "We like the idea that there's always someone responsible for any given event, because that helps us make sense of the world.

since I already know it would work, and it wouldn't illuminate any new gestalts.