Quotes About Understanding

S?k?lmak ve k?zmak benim dostumun kulland??? duygulardan de?ildir.

Hepimiz kar??m?zdakinin bizi anlamas?n? isteriz ama, ayna gibi içimiz d???m?z görünsün istemeyiz.

I don't think you can ever call kindness a mistake -Mr. Sabatini

Mom's lips puckered, like she'd bitten something rotten. At times like this, Cody could tell that being a grown-up was harder than it looked.

I love you, he told her. Sweet joy rushed through her. But there was a distinct smugness about his words. He'd sensed her feelings in return, and was pleased with himself for doing so. Turns out I love you too, she replied, communicating her wry amusement. Of all the annoying people in the world.

We have more in common than I thought, he mused wryly. He liked the idea that, if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support. It's always easier to become friends with someone you have something in common with. I just hope it doesn't take some socially disastrous fall before she'll consider the possibility I might be a friend.

A friend. Cery's shoulders drooped. Closing his eyes, he let out a long sigh.

Communication, for

them. When we see love in action, compassion in the face of hatred or anger, forgiveness in the face of pain and suffering, we are looking at and experiencing the kingdom of God right where we stand.

There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated

One can be both entertained and educated and not know the difference".

Torah is the study of G-d thinking.

the objective of all man's toil in this world: To reach beyond his own mind.

I am not aware of ever having used a profane expletive in my life; but I would have the charity to excuse those who may have done so, if they were in charge of a train of Mexican pack mules at the time. CHAPTER VIII.

I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about.

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.

Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.

I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.

I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace. Who said that peace derives from the contemplation of order, order understood, enjoyed, realized without residuum, in joy and truimph, the end of effort? All is clear, limpid; the eye rests on the whole and on the parts and sees how the parts have conspired to make the whole; it perceives the center where the lymph flows, the breath, the root of the whys...

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to enquiry (William of Baskerville)

There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.