Quotes About Understanding

statuere enim qui sit sapiens vel maxime videtur esse sapientis

T?cerea face parte din conversa?ie.

Sapientia autem est, ut a veteribus philosophis definitum est, rerum divinarum et humanarum causarumque, quibus eae res continentur, scientia, cuius studium qui vituperat haud sane intellego quidnam sit quod laudandum putet.

It is important not only to read God's Word but to interpret God's world in the light of the Word.

The vast majority of you (and democracy is, after all, "majority rule") don't actively participate in, protect, fight for or even understand democracy. That's perfectly natural, mainly because you've never really had a democracy. What you have here, technically, is an oligarchy dressed down and slumming around in the hooded sweatshirt and baggy jeans of democracy. In

Our day-to-day concepts do not capture what a concept is because they do not allow the full force of what a concept can do.

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.

Because nobody knows you better than somebody who knew you way back then.

Do you ever think that people who find it tougher to say what they're feeling are the ones who feel things more intensely? As if they're the ones who really understand what it means to love someone? As if they have to keep their defenses high, because they care too much and have too much to lose?

Semper ubi sub ubi

If love disappeared when we touched the fault-lines, it wouldn't be worth much, would it?

Katherine Mansfield, clearly speaking personally, had remarked wryly in 1924 that "the true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone—reading between the lines—has become the secret friend of their author,"54

It occurred to me, not for the first time, that Lili's world was not so different from my dioramas, or even from Sirena's installations: you took a tiny portion of the earth and made it yours, but really what you wanted was for someone else -- ideally, a grown-up, because a grown-up matters, has authority, but is also not the same as you -- to come and see, to get it, and thereby, somehow, to get you; and all of this, surely so that you might ultimately feel less alone on the planet.

Each of us shapes our stories so they make sense of who we think we are.

He said that's what family is for: the people who love you see you in the best light, as you want to be seen.

He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained, I've come to understand that grown-ups, mad or sane, ought really to be accorded the same respect. In this sense, nobody is actually crazy, just not understood.

and of course, you can't ever really know what happens to another person, or what they think happens to them, which amounts to the same thing.

The simplest and least flattering explanation was always the right one, I'd learned over the years. But

Nobody would know me from my own description of myself;

If you told me my own story about someone else, I would have assured you that this person was completely unhinged. Or a child. That's always the way.

During training, a lot of focus is placed on getting at a submissive's emotional core. Submission is about truth, about revealing yourself. If you simply demand obedience without understanding a sub's true motivations and needs, even if the sub obeys every command to the letter and every aspect of every scene, they're just going through the motions, and so are you." "Yes!

She wished they'd had more time, say an hour or a week or maybe a few years, to figure this all out.

Love. He'd written enough lyrics about it, but did he really have any idea what it meant?