Quotes About Understanding

No, 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.

You only feel that way because the boy you love is not aware enough of his own feelings to make things clear to you or even to himself.

En el momento en que entiendo verdaderamente a mi enemigo, en el momento en 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 quere, saber lo que cree, y no amarle como se ama a sí mismo.

with than the person who actually lived.

I know you don't know. I know what you know, and I know what you don't know. I even know what you don't know that you don't know.

Theresa had always loved about teaching: a group of people thinking the same thoughts, conceiving the same universe, becoming, for just a few moments, one.

But then she might not be good at understanding the inflections of one such as this. Certainly it was hard to read the grimaces of such a round-eyed man. Both his face and his voice contained hidden languages that she could not understand.

Children never do understand their own childishness. Then

And they apologized again. Back to business. Back to respect. And Ender realized that in their laughter, in their friendship, it had not occurred to them that he could have been included.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You

you never knew why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even knew themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

Cuando tienes la sabiduría que otra persona sabe que necesita, ofrécela libremente. Pero cuando la otra persona no sepa todavía que necesita tu sabiduría, guárdatela para ti. La comida sólo parece atractiva a un hombre hambriento.

It was wrong of me to value my own pain so highly that I thought it gave me the right to inflict more on him.

Children never do understand their own childishness.

Umbo grimaced. "It would be just like him.

I wanted to learn what it was like to have a friend

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy. I have learned from the buggers. You will learn from me.

We never hated Grego," said Olhado. "I should have known," said Miro. "I knew he was suffering the worst pain of any of us, but it never occurred to me . . ." "Don't blame yourself," said Ender. "It's the kind of thing that only a stranger can see.

Orson Scott Card

La ignorancia y la mentira no pueden salvar a nadie. El conocimiento lo hace.

That's what it means to be married. You fight all the time, but you never fight about what you think you're fighting about.

He had long since learned that when somehting unusual was going on, something that was part of someone else's plan and not his own, he would find out more information by waiting than by asking. Adults almost always lost their patience before Ender did.

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.

Binecuvantati cei ce sunt binecuvantati numai de boli de boli clasificabile. Binecuvantati saracii, bolnavii, cei tradati in iubire, caci cei din jur stiu macar ce-i cu ei si le vor asculta cu simpatie vaicarelilor. Dar intelege oare suferinta exilului cel ce nu a indurat-o?