Quotes About Understanding

Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.

Never write a letter while you are angry.

It is while you are patiently toiling at little tasks that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn upon you.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

In this light, let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Reason. If you follow it far enough, it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Logic is one thing, and common sense another.

And further, the vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. Nor is reason itself the most satisfactory instrument for the understanding of life.

Plant love everywhere, so that it grows through the cracks in hatred.

Love is blind but the neighbors are not.

Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them.

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.

Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Successful marriage: The union of two good forgivers.

There is a sweetness of May verging on June that no other time in the whole year can equal. And by sweetness is meant more than flower fragrance or honey taste; this is the greater sweetness of understanding and emotion, the glow of pleasure in being.

As much as I love my [d!@k] the universe does not dance to its whim. How is this hard for some guys to understand?

...truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion...

Nurses are patient people.

Peace is the father of friendship.

Jokes about menstrual cycles are not funny. Period.

Philosophy is common sense in a dress suit.

...the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. There have been added, however, some grasp of the immensity of things, some purification of emotion by understanding.