Quotes About Understanding

You treated me the way you like to be treated when you grieve, and now I'm treating you the way I like to be treated. We prescribe our own medicine for each other.

Anything that is possible to be believed is an image of truth.

All these uses a valid; all these reading of the book are correct. For all these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world of Ender's Game, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions.

The problem was, the people who should shut up were the ones talking the most.

That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and... I don't even know which of them is me. - Hyrum Graff

No, said Ender. I don't know about souls. I just know that while we're alive, in these bodies, we can only do what our body can do. My parents believe in souls. I've known people who were absolutely sure. Smart people. Good people. So just because I don't understand it doesn't mean I'm sure it can't be true.

One of Ender's toonmates shook his head. "You dumb as a thumb.

The disadvantage with people is that you can't put bookmarks in them and set them aside till you want them again.

I know you!' She insisted. 'No you don't. But that's all right, because I don't know me either, let alone you. We never understand anybody, not even ourselves.

Ender, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know how it feels. I'm sorry, I'm your brother. I love you.

En el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en el que le entiendo lo suficientemente bien como para derrotarle, entonces, en ese preciso instante, también le quiero.

Creo que es imposible entender realmente a alguien, saber lo que quiere, saber lo que cree, y no amarle como se ama a sí mismo.

Don't press her," said Cooper. "If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don't insist on his saying it.

Humor depends on the teller and hearer of the jest standing in the same place.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

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

How could Quing-jao know what the gods meant by anything?

That's just one of the drawbacks when you love somebody so much greater than yourself, Miro told himself. I'll never know the difference. She'll come back and I'll be happy with all the time we have together and I'll never know how little time and effort she actually devotes to being with me. A diversion, that's what I am. Then

The secret is not to avoid learning useless knowledge. It's to make use of whatever knowledge you have.

He thinks I'm like him, Mazer realized. That's what we do as humans; it's how we read minds. We assume that other people think like we do. So if we're nasty and suspicious and conniving we assume that everyone is as nasty and suspicious and conniving as we are.

Why is it called Dr. Device?" "When it was developed, it was called a Molecular Detachment Device. M.D. Device." Ender still didn't understand. "M.D. The initials stand for Medical Doctor, too. M.D. Device, therefore Dr. Device. It was a joke." Ender didn't see what was funny about it.

most truth can only be expressed in circular paradoxes.