Quotes About Understanding

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

in 1979] You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think?

nous devons faire semblant de parler la même langue d'être emplis des mêmes mots

You can always tell a real friend: when you make a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

There is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world.

It is in the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

Mes compagnes, mes "accompagnatrices", ne sont jamais restées longtemps: très vite elles s'en allaient, dès qu'elles comprenaient que ce qu'elles avaient d'abord pris chez moi pour du détachement était du vide; or les femmes savent que le vide engendre le vide, alors elles me quittaient, avec douceur, sans oser me dire quoi que ce soit: car que peut-on dire à un naufragé?

Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

Betrayal and grief have a certain color no matter what the species is.

But liking someone whose species you dislike is something--worth more than currency on a chit.

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

For He is our childhood's pattern, day by day like us He grew, He was little, weak, and helpless, tears and smiles like us He knew.

That is, if I understand God's abounding love and grasp that God forgives me even though I don't deserve it, the realization produces one powerful result: I forgive others. On every level and no matter how superficially or deeply I was hurt.

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

She had seen what it cost him and her heart quickened with compassion. For that alone, she might have loved him almost.

The idiot will tire soon enough of his playthings and will come home; husbands always do.

That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.

Don't fucking make judgments about something you know nothing about.