Quotes About Understanding

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read "Dora Thorne," or had a great deal in the past. It seemed only fair to her, but she supposed that people thought it very fine. Now this clear- eyed, fine-headed youth, who looked something like a student to her, made fun of it. It was poor to him, not worth reading. She looked down, and for the first time felt the pain of not understanding.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.

We] all need more than anything else to know human nature, to know the needs of the human soul; and they will find this nature and these needs set forth as nowhere else by the great imaginative writers, whether of prose or of poetry.

Our creed is one that bids us to be just to all, to feel sympathy for all, and to strive for an understanding of the needs of all. Our purpose is to smite down wrong.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

Why do you talk all the time?" I asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she cocked her head on one side and considered it carefully. "I think it's 'cause I don't know any big words, like you and Mummy," she said, just in time to pull me out of my magazine again, "so I have to use lots and lots of little ones.

I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself.

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Numai atunci cand vor invata sa dialogheze oamenii vor incepe sa fie egali.

Die verborgenen Gedanken in den Köpfen der Anderen sind das große Dunkel, das uns umgibt.

I have chosen to write about women, because I am not one myself, and because I have always preferred to write about subjects which do not tempt me to be so arrogant as to believe that I can ever fully understand them, but above all because many women seem to me to be looking at life with fresh eyes, and their autobiographies, in various forms, are the most original part of contemporary literature

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes?

The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it.

Divination is the quest to understand more about the past, present, and future. In other words, Tarot readings are an attempt to understand ourselves better and discover how we might live better in the future.

Tell him that I loved the little boy in him, and that I loved the man in him. Tell him I loved his sad side, and his laughing side.

All his life he'd viewed the world from a skewed perspective. And now he'd finally met someone who was seeing the same world he was seeing. That was a good feeling. Talking