Quotes About Understanding

Thea sagged back against the seat. She was still confused and unhappy, but what scared her most was that she felt a strong urge to keep talking to Eric about it. He seemed to understand so well…better than anybody else ever had. And not only to understand, but to care.

With that, Kaitlyn realized that he'd seen as deeply into her mind as she'd seen into his. She had thought he was the one giving, while she had only received…but of course, he'd had to join with her completely in order to share his life with her.

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.

I would have understood if they had killed him.

They understand NOW," agreed Charles pointedly. "But what happens in a little while when the effects wear off and they remember everything except the reasons why they did it? They're going to be telling their parents they gave their car away to some kids who made them smell a leaf. And what do they say then?

She knew his secrets, knew him inside out. Humans could never know each other that way. They could never really get into another person's head. All the talking in the world couldn't even prove that you and the other person saw the same colour red.

We knew each other, it was as if each could see the other one's soul. Once you see into someone's soul, you're attached forever.

Help when you can. Shelter when you have room. Guide when you know where to go, and be patient with the slow.

I suppose I should go away and not scare you anymore. Is that what you want?

No one is ever alone.

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand. . . .

You don't love somebody because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song that nobody but you can understand.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

When I had got over the shock of this disclosure, which quite took away my powers of speech, my first impulse was to feel aggrieved. Why hadn't they told me? I might have made an even worse fool of myself. Then, with still greater force, it struck me that I ought to have known. It had been obvious from the start, too obvious. But I was like that. Two and two never made four for me, if I could make them five.

Gross ignorance produces a dogmatic spirit. He who knows nothing thinks he can teach others what he has himself just been learning. He who knows much scarcely believes that what he is saying is unknown to others, and consequently speaks with more hesitation.

We are more sociable and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.

Sudden love takes the longest time to be cured.

Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the manner in which they are distributed and the kind of men who have the largest share.

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.

The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself.

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

Some men promise to keep your secret and yet reveal it without knowing they are doing so; they do not wag their lips, and yet they are understood; it is read on their brow and in their eyes; it is seen through their breast; they are transparent.