Quotes About Understanding

Cuánto podemos alguna vez saber sobre el amor y el dolor en otro corazón? ¿Cuánto podemos esperar entender a quienes han sufrido la angustia más profunda, una mayor privación, y más decepciones aplastamiento que nosotros mismos hemos conocido

Tidak mungkin bagi kita untuk sengaja menyakiti orang lain tanpa menyakiti diri kita sendiri juga.

The things that come from others correspond with what we send to them.

If a man purposely does me wrong," a Buddhist says, "I will return him my ungrudging love; the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

My aim is to explore Russian culture in the same way Tolstoy presents Natasha's dance: as a series of encounters or creative social acts which were performed and understood in many different ways.

It [seed of doubt] made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise. (Ender's Game, page 111)

Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

Madness, and then illumination.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

We've devoted our lives to learning about them! Miro said. Ender stopped. Not from them.

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

Quim, she said, don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.