Quotes About Understanding

Ah, I feel a sadness on me, Dane. That's how the Irish people say it. In their language, you can't say, "I am sad," or "I am happy". They understood what we English have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes.

Graham spoke plainly and directly. Convinced that the average person had a working vocabulary of six hundred words, he made a point to stick with common words and short sentences. Though he never put it exactly this way, he instinctively grasped the import of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson's recipe for rabbit stew: first "you have to catch the rabbit.

Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right

anything sensitive. They don't phone each other and ask how their day is going, as women often do. They don't go shopping together. For many men, sex is the only time they ever feel really close to anyone. It's not just about physical gratification. Consider the possibility that he's trying to feel closer to you, rather than just using you.

Dogs could mellow a wild boy, or open up a shy one.

They're trying to understand what space is. That's tough for them. They break distances down into concentrations of chemicals. For them, space is a range of taste intensities.

If a guy truly likes you, but for personal reasons he needs to take things slow, he will let you know that immediately. He won't keep you guessing, because he'll want to make sure you don't get frustrated and go away.

He doesn't have to love your CD collection. He doesn't have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family—especially when they're great.

When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you'd like them to be.

I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone I meet.

That's…that's exactly

Understanding an idea meant entangling it so thoroughly with all the other symbols in your mind that it changed the way you thought about everything.

I hope you theorists know what you're doing.' 'I can assure you that we don't. The geometry is still beyond us. All I learnt in the void was that our best guess so far is certainly wrong.

Often when she thought she was reading his body

He turned back to face them. 'I do make sense to you, don't I? I'm not just imagining that communication is taking place?

I was recruited by the dead,' Zak said. 'Not in any rush to join them in their silence, but from the urgent need to understand what they might have thought and done that could survive them, that could speak across the ages, that could be continued even now.

Maybe it seems strange to you, all the trouble we're taking to catch a glimpse of what you're going to see in close-up, so soon. It's hard to explain: I don't think it's jealousy, or even impatience. Just a need for independence.

Whatever elaborate, and grotesquely counter-intuitive, underpinnings there might be to familiar reality, it stubbornly continues to be familiar. When Rutherford showed that atoms were mostly empty space, did the ground become any less solid? The truth itself changes nothing.

I don't believe their minds were so different from ours that we're in danger of wildly misinterpreting anything that looks like a simple message. So far, the worst mistake we could have made would have been to give up too soon on trying to interpret the isotopes.

Isn't there a level where both sides can still cooperate?

You needed someone to vent to, and I had enough distance from it that it didn't weigh me down. I could commiserate and walk away.

Haven't you heard of Occam's Razor: once you have a perfectly simple explanation for something, you don't go looking for ever more complicated ways of explaining the very same thing?

All we can ever know about are the portraits of each other inside our own skulls.