Quotes About Understanding

Aukl?jimo paslaptis - ne tai, k? t?vai daro, o tai, k? jie reiškia savo vaikui.

Children do not automatically grant us the authority to parent them just because we are adults, or just because we love them or think we know what is good for them or have their best interests at heart.

Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.

I'm not an expert," said Cletus. "I'm a scholar. There's a difference. An expert's a man who knows a great deal about his subject. A scholar's someone who knows all there is that's available to be known about it.

But I'm not an expert," said Cletus. "I'm a scholar. There's a difference. An expert's a man who knows a great deal about his subject. A scholar's someone who knows all there is that's available to be known about it.

That's common sense Joe! And your tiny mind is not common!

It would be narrowness to suppose that an artist can only care for the impressions of those who know the methods of his art as well as feel its effects. Art works for all whom it can touch.

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter.

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.

The world is governed more by appearance than reality, and therefore it is fully as necessary to seem to know something, as to know it in reality.

Beauty isn't so much a matter of mug as a question of thinks.

Beauty… when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.

Pigeons are people too.

A book that is shut is but a block.

Nothing is more unfair to an author than to read or "dip into" his book before seeing what he has to say about it in his Preface.

BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Let knowledge live. Burn your fears instead.

Books light the world — to burn them extinguishes the flame.

Chocolate doesn't ask silly questions. Chocolate understands.

I don't understand decaf, it's like sex without the sex.

Don't laugh at the coffee. Some day you, too, may be old and weak.

Common sense is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden.

For, on this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.