Quotes About Understanding

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

He who teaches children learns more than they do.

No answer is also an answer.

The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.

You know nothing John Snow" -- the wildling Ygritte

You know kids, I wish every mom and dad would make a speech to their teenagers and say kids, be free, be whatever you are, do whatever you want to do, just so long as you don't hurt anybody

Haven't you heard a word I've said?" She kissed Luke softly on the lips, then whispered, "There's only you." She smiled, her lips still pressed firmly against Luke. I feel like I've been waiting for you my whole life.

Gamaliel Bradford that "sacred as both are, the law of love is higher than the law of truth. For this there is a perfectly simple and unassailable reason, that truth at its best is deceiving, but love is never. We toil and tire ourselves and sacrifice our lives for the dim goddess Truth. Then she eludes us, slips away from us, mocks at us. But love grows firmer and surer and more prevailing as the years pass by.

No matter how old you are, nobody likes it when someone yucks your yum.

Crawling into the skin of the other (empathy). 'It must be hard to …' 176

_It must have been_ are magical words that say to the _Other_, 'I understand how it was.

The argument must begin from a position that generates acceptance or approval.

Feelings have their own special names. The more names you know, the more you can understand your feelings and tell other people about them. And the more you can stick up for yourself. Names are like handles for our feelings. Knowing

You hear me speak. But do you hear me feel?

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

[Ezra Pound] was a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

I just tell you, and though I don't sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.

I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.

All is mystery except our pain.