Quotes About Understanding

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. I am human, I think nothing human alien to me.

We have eaten theology with you, will you now eat theology with us?

Yo también sufría, pero mi dolor no era más que un vano intento de experimentar el suyo.

I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school.

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up.

Nonfiction lets us learn more; fiction lets us be more.

Dealing with the loss of Kelsey should have made her more attuned to the agony of others,

La persona que descubrió la capacidad de querer a alguien, seguramente descubrió algo más importante que las descubiertas del premio Nobel. Si el ser humano no es capaz o no quiere dar la debida importancia a eso, mejor sería si el hombre fuera extinto para siempre. Ojalá ocurra una colisión de planetas o algo que valga y todo sea rápidamente destruido.

Should we die, the mechanics of life would go on without us, and that is what people feel most terribly disturbed by,' Korin interrupted himself, bowed his head, thought for a while, then pulled an agonized expression and started slowly swiveling his head, 'though it is only the very fact that it goes on that enables us properly to understand that there is no mechanism.

It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like a cause from a certain viewpoint.

But nothing could assuage the unconscious fury of our new and tragic understanding, our sense of having been cheated, our fear, for, however we looked for it, we could not find a fit object for our disgust and despair, and so we attacked everything in our way with an equal and infinite passion…

don't mistake my calm for forgiveness because there's none where you're concerned.

at the end of the day, men are men. We have to kill their stupidity with kindness like only we can.

But at the end of the day, men are men. We have to kill their stupidity with kindness like only we can.

People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.

You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said. The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.

It doesn't matter if you can't say it right now. I'll say it for both of us. And someday you'll learn.

True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)

Die Vergangenheit ist ein fremdes Land; dort gelten andere Regeln.