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Quotes About Understanding

You might say that the scientist is nothing more than a glorified accident-investigator. And the accident-investigator is himself the product of accident. But man is more deeply moved by meaning than by accident.
~ Colin Wilson
The Inuit language has no difference between he or she, or between mankind and animal," she adds. "They're all equal."5
~ Colin Woodard
Se continui a guardarmi così, Victoria, sarò felice di darti quello che vuoi. Dopotutto, non sei più una bambina Sebastian a Victoria
~ Colleen Gleason
The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.
~ Colson Whitehead
It didn't make no sense until it made the only sense.
~ Colson Whitehead
Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
~ Colson Whitehead
The Four Questions?" "As put forth by Mettleheim: How did this happen? How could this happen? Is it exceptional? How will it be avoided in the future?
~ Colson Whitehead
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, because in the end, whatever goes down, whatever you get up to, your triumphs and transgressions, nobody actually understands what it means except for you.
~ Colson Whitehead
Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many times, his voice drifting through the village like an angry phantom. She didn't understand the words, most of them at any rate, but 'created equal' was not lost on her. The white men who wrote it didn't understand it either, if 'all men' did not truly mean all men.
~ Colson Whitehead
That's true," Turner said. "That doesn't mean I can't see how it works. Maybe I see things more clearly because of it." He made a face as the soap powder gave him a kick. "The key to in here is the same as surviving out there—you got to see how people act, and then you got to figure out how to get around them like an obstacle course. If you want to walk out of here.
~ Colson Whitehead
Try to forget bit by bit, it will be easier on you. Leave it behind. Then the plane tilts in its escape and over the gray wing the city explodes into view with all its miles and spires and inscrutable hustle and as you try to comprehend this sight you realize that you were never really there at all.
~ Colson Whitehead
favored on her visits. Up close, it was plain
~ Colson Whitehead
Llamas a las cosas por otro nombre como si así combinaras lo que son. Pero eso no las convierte en verdad.
~ Colson Whitehead
the children make of it what they can. What they don't understand today, they might tomorrow. "The Declaration is like a map. You trust that it's right, but you only know by going out and testing it yourself.
~ Colson Whitehead
No matter that Mr. Marconi had told him he didn't care, no matter that Elwood had never said a word to his friends when they stole in his presence. It didn't make no sense until it made the only sense.
~ Colson Whitehead
Know your value and you know your place in the order.
~ Colson Whitehead
You should have gone yourself, you ask for a Coke and they come back with orange drink. No one understands the martyrdom of the volunteers for the trip to food concession.
~ Colson Whitehead
When you remember this moment later you will understand that I was saying goodbye even if you did not know it.
~ Colson Whitehead
Tonight the song you always despised strides from the jukebox full-bodied and you hear the lyrics for the first time, understand the lyrics for the first time after all these years. This new you with an older soul. Now it's your favorite. All this time singing the wrong words.
~ Colson Whitehead
Things are happening too fast for her to convince herself that she does not need time to think, to get to the bottom of things.
~ Colson Whitehead
Raymond shared theirs—and the
~ Colson Whitehead
Judge not the dysfunctions of others, let ye be judged.
~ Colson Whitehead
He was a rube, but he was no tourist.
~ Colson Whitehead
There was a message there, if he could teach himself the language.
~ Colson Whitehead