Quotes About Understanding

Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.

It's obvious some people don't have an emotional thing for the music.

Obviously, we all look at things through the filter of our own experiences.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Imitation is the best form of flattery; people generally understand that my comedy is not intended to hurt anybody. Occasionally, an actor might take exception, but they should just understand that it is all done in good humour.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

I've talked to people of every race and occupation. The bottom line is that we're all the same.

Sunrise is the time to feel that you will be able to find out how to help somebody close to you, who you think needs help even if he doesn't think so. At sunrise, everything is luminous, but not clear.

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?

She was never to ask me a question about the man she loved most and understood least. Perhaps she knew enough to know that for her it was enough to have loved him.

Metaphor reveals a writer's true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a life.

What enables devils to survive is that we are wise enough to understand that there are no answers—there are only questions.

It is easy to comprehend people who are weaker than ourselves, but it is not as simple to be ready for the true feelings of those more powerful.

She was a good girl, he said to himself. He was thinking without quite phrasing it that no other person had ever understood him so fully, and he felt a secret relief as he realized that she had understood him and still loved him.

All you need do is nod. I already know nine parts in ten of what he will say, but it is like fishing. Be patient, and you will get what you came for.

The aim of these gatherings is to acquaint you with the factology of facts. One has to know whether one is dealing with the essential or the circumferential fact. Historical data, after all, tend to be not particularly factual and subject to revision by later researchers. You must look to start, therefore, with the fact that cannot be smashed into sub-particles of fact.

He already understands that the past can't be changed. Now he's beginning to understand how easily it can be repeated.

It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Focus on people and the needs they have.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

the more I seek, the less I find.

I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: the most conscientious student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.