Quotes About Understanding

You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim. That's right, said Miro. Ender smiled. And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

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.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

to understand who a person really was, what his or her life really meant, the speaker for the dead would have to explain their self-story–what they meant to do, what they actually did, what they regretted, what they rejoiced in. That's the story that we never know, the story that we never can know–and yet, at the time of death, it's the only story truly worth telling.

I think you can't possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them.

So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.

I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her. I didn't want to fight her anymore. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go home. So I blew up her planet.

Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

I know everything I need to know already, Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet. So tell me, said Rigg. I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease...

I speak to everyone in the language they understand, said Ender. That isn't being slick. It's being clear

Ender had never spoken of that to anyone, not even to Mother, but had kept it as a memory of holiness, of how his mother loved him when she thought that no one, not even he, could see or hear. That was what Alai had given him: a gift so sacred that even Ender could not be allowed to understand what it meant.

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.

I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at least try to see my side. I can see your side, said Cecily. I've got a much clearer view of it than you do, from over here on my side.

Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. Never mock a tender heart, he said.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

Ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

I tell students that suspense comes, not from knowing almost nothing, but from knowing almost everything and caring very much about the small part still unknown.

Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none.

It [seed of doubt] made Ender listen to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.