Quotes About Understanding

Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

GeçmiÅŸ güzeldir çünkü insan asla bir duyguyu yaÅŸad??? anda anlamaz. Duygu sonradan aç?l?p, geniÅŸler. Bu yüzden de ÅŸimdiyle ilgili tamama ermiÅŸ duygular?m?z yoktur, sadece geçmiÅŸle ilgili vard?r.

The number of books in the world is infinite, and one is forced to glimpse and nod and move on after a moment of talk, a flash of understanding, as, in the street outside, one catches a word in passing and from a chance phrase fabricates a lifetime.

o que podemos supor que fazem as mulheres quando buscam a companhia das outras?

Like and like and like - but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?

You're not going to sniff my ass, are you? Like a dog?

What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

And I—the girl growing in their midst, being made in their image—I absorbed them as I would chloroform on a cloth laid against my face. It has taken me thirty years to understand how much of them I understood.

Very young, I was not able to find myself interesting without intelligent response. I required the company of minds attuned to my own, but no one around gave me back the words I needed to hear.

Penetrating the familiar is by no means a given. On the contrary, it is hard work.

Religion and that newer science of the spirit, psychology, have met and are beginning to find common ground as we search for and find the answers to what it means to be human. From these two sciences of the spirit is emerging a new vision of humanity and human potential which shows that to live in harmony with and to understand the spiritual aspect of our humanity is fundamental to human existence and happiness.

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

Without you I wouldn't have moved this way, to speak the language of flowers.

You are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought...

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle even though we must keep a little aloof, a little detached when reading.

I cannot separate the aesthetic pleasure of seeing a butterfly and the scientific pleasure of knowing what it is.

He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd clues in a clever puzzle.

To be quite candid — and what I am going to say now is something I have never said before, and I hope that it provokes a salutary chill — I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

Easy, you know, does it, son.