Quotes About Understanding

now at long last one of them is going to have the courage to explain to my generation how any human being with mind and heart and brain could Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not even 'do' what was done – it isn't our function to say whether a man is 'guilty as charged' or not – but even see it being done, and consent to remain alive.

on the whole the US personnel soon felt considerably more sympathy for the Germans than for their victims.

If one wanted to gain real understanding of Speer, one had to realize first that almost everything he did–though, as shown by some of our talks, not quite everything–had a purpose, generally directed towards his own benefit.

moço de dezasseis anos que não sabia nada, mas era precisamente por essa razão que estava mais adaptado ao mundo novo do que ele, que sabia tudo.

Let the paths from every direction recognize each other.

mean you do it to purify your whole outlook and get an absolutely new conception of what everything's about.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

His curse in life was to be attracted to people who understood him.

She knew him. Somehow. And wasn't that quite marvelous?

You know what the hardest thing is?" Phoebe said, as the first pair of fireworks went up. "The hardest thing is to know everything you know so far and still have faith.

He was always teasing me about not reading books, but one day he said: Reading a book is a dangerous thing, Justine. A book can make you find room in yourself for something you never thought you'd understand. Or worse, something you never wanted to understand.

Ironies were like secrets: unshared they died.

We stayed like that, him watching me crying, for as long as we could stand it. Then he took a couple of paces away. The room needed a window for him to go to and look out of. I could feel the grammar of the moment demanding it.

Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.

Thanks," she says - and suddenly tears well and fall. Augustus understands: not because she's suffered but because he's helping her. When you're a child people's cruelty makes you cry. When you're an adult it's their kindness.

The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

She'd give him time, then logic. Men's minds were like wooden axles. Now and then they needed grease.

Plus I think it would be good for men to know they have limits.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

the people who talk most about the need to regulate guns are also usually the same people who know the least about them. Ask these gun prohibitionists about the Second Amendment and they'll usually mention hunting or sport shooting.

There's a big difference between not knowing the truth and not liking it.

It is in no citizen's best interest to follow politicians who use panic, confusion, and hastily crafted legislation to enact emergency powers that they themselves barely understand. Panic will not lead this ship to a safer port, only farther out to sea, into far deeper and more dangerous waters.

actually translates to "peace," because in Arabic it is based on the same root word, salam. That word, salam, can be found in the traditional greeting assalamualaikum ("Peace be upon you"). But as