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Quotes About Understanding

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
~ Tennessee Williams
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
~ Tennessee Williams
I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
~ Tennessee Williams
Megogong otigree" (keeping quiet means no cruelty).
~ Tepilit Ole Saitoti
One who understands is freer in the head but sadder in the heart. It is sad to know that there is so much wrong in our world, and for the most part we are helpless to do anything about it.
~ Tepilit Ole Saitoti
I delved especially into black writers. Their analogies were relevant to my own experiences, and I understood them better for that.
~ Tepilit Ole Saitoti
I am a man: nothing human is alien to me.
~ Terence
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
~ Terence
Hence these tears.
~ Terence
Homo sum humani nil a me alienum puto.(I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me.)
~ Terence
I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.
~ Terence
The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.
~ Terence McKenna
Half the time you think your thinking you're actually listening
~ Terence McKenna
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
~ Terence McKenna
Healthy people love their partners even when they don't make them feel good.
~ Terence T. Gorski
Mathematical problems, or puzzles, are important to real mathematics (like solving real-life problems), just as fables, stories and anecdotes are important to the young in understanding real life
~ Terence Tao
If you don't love your characters who else will?
~ Teresa Denys
Rachel, it's been nearly two hours." "Oh." She looked surprised. "I'm sorry.
~ Teresa Hill
Don't U want someone to complete you the way Mini-Me completed Dr. Evil? Someone who shares the same tastes in music food who will finish … my sentences? The last thing I need is someone stealing the punch lines to all my jokes.
~ Teresa Medeiros
Why is abbreviation such a long word?
~ Teresa Monachino
It is a great advantage for us to be able to consult someone who knows us, so that we may learn to know ourselves.
~ Teresa of Avila
many people are good at talking and bad at understanding
~ Teresa of Avila
It is a good proof and test of our love if we can bear with such faults and not be shocked by them. Others, in their turn, will bear with your faults, which, if you include those of which you are not aware, must be much more numerous.
~ Teresa of Avila
For at times it happens that some trifle will cause as much suffering to one as a great trial will to another; little things can bring much distress to persons who have sensitive natures. If you are not like them, do not fail to be compassionate.
~ Teresa of Avila