Quotes About Understanding

I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.

But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

I know all the people I want to know.

he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all

I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again.

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.

Nobody comes with names. You give them names so that you can find them in the dark.

I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.

She knew that in the end you really cant know. You cant get hold of the world. You can only draw a picture. Whether it's a bull on the wall of a cave or a partial differential equation it's all the same thing.

There's two kinds of people that dont ask a lot of questions. One is too dumb to and the other dont need to.

where all is known, no narrative is possible.

There is no description of a fool that you fail to satisfy.

If I didnt have her I dont know what I would have. Well, yes I do. You wouldnt need a box to put it in, neither.

He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.

Wrinkle not thy sable brow at me, my friend. All will be known to you at last. To you as to every man.

Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

If I'm not here you can still talk to me. You can talk to me and I'll talk to you. You'll see.

Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you're light in the head. But I reckon it's all right to talk to a dog since most folks do even if a dog don't understand and cain't answer if he did.

There's a way to train a horse where when you get done you've got the horse. On his own ground. A good horse will figure things out on his own. You can see what's in his heart. He wont do one thing while you're watching him and another when you aint. He's all of a piece. When you've got a horse to that place you cant hardly get him to do somethin he knows is wrong. He'll fight you over it. And if you mistreat him it just about kills him. A good horse has justice in his heart.

What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time limit. While it's never too late for revenge.

Things separate from their stories have no meaning.