Quotes About Understanding

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Silence is also speech.

Prayer of the day: God, let the people of the world understand how they can embrace simplicity to save their lives.

DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed.

So — smile away! Folks understand what by a smile is meant; It's worth a million dollars — and it doesn't cost a cent.

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.

Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do.

Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable

Sie ließen sich jetzt die Hände frei, ergriffen sie aber auf der Stelle wieder und beide sagten gleichzeitig: "Und wie geht es dir auch?" Aber statt sich zu antworten, fragten sie das gleiche aufs neue und die Antwort lag nur in den beredten Augen, da sie nach Art der Verliebten die Worte nicht mehr zu lenken wussten und, ohne sich weiter etwas zu sagen, endlich halb selig halb traurig auseinanderhuschten.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Lies in meinen Augen, was ich dir nicht alles sagen kann.

Der Blick, des Forschers fand nicht selten mehr, als er zu finden wünschte.

Wait for the right, honest words from the man you're interested in before jumping conclusions. Unless he tells you he loves you, he doesn't.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

Just coming out of your mother's womb does not make you a human being. - Just getting old doesn't make you wise.

Don't ever fancy, no matter how hard a thing you have to go through, that your experience is unique. This old world has been going on a good many hundred years, and there are precious few situations that haven't happened over and over again. Cheer up, child; that's a model letter, and you're a good little sport!

upon the world. She understood that perhaps even up to the very day before, they had most of them been merry, careless boys; but now they were men, made so in a night by the horrible sin that had brought about this thing called War.

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

Las mujeres han comprado libros escritos por hombres desde siempre, y se dieron cuenta de que no eran acerca de ellas. Pero continuaron haciéndolo con gran interés porque era como leer acerca de un país extranjero. Los hombres nunca han devuelto la cortesía".

My dear, no one knows the power of good sense. It hasn't been built up or experimented with sufficiently.

Men have so often written about women without knowing the reality of their lives, and worse, without being interested in that daily reality.

Happy!" He leaned over the rail and tried to hold her eyes. But that is hard to do, for eyes are born dodgers and know a whole circumference of ways out of a bad spot. "Faith in the Afternoon