Quotes About Understanding

There's data in the world available only to those who have reached a certain level of wretchedness. You dont know what's down there if you havent been down there.

He said that the world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them and therefore to know it one must look there and come to know those hearts and to do this one must live with men and not simply pass among them.

Aldrig mer är en lång tid. Men pojken visste det han visste. Att aldrig mer inte är någon tid alls.

What if the catalyst or the key to understanding creation lay in the immense mind of the whale?...Suppose if God came back from wherever it is he's been and asked us smilingly if we'd figured it out yet. Suppose he wanted to know if it had finally occurred to us to ask the whale. And then he sort of looked around and he said, By the way, where are the whales?

Out of their anterior lives they had arrived at the same understanding as their fathers before them. That movement itself is a form of property.

Yo creo que la verdad siempre es simple. Y lo es por fuerza. Tiene que ser lo bastante simple para que la entienda un niño.

Well. I guess what I understand is that at the core of the world of the deranged is the realization that there is another world and that they are not a part of it.

People from the other side will seem odd to you. And you will never understand the latitude which they extend to you.

Some physicists suspect that the theory must eventually arrive at the understanding that the universe itself is a quantum phenomenon. That what quantum mechanics ultimately describes is the universe.

A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly

And I woke up and as I woke up the dream began to dissolve. The dream and the story of the dream. And I knew that in the dream was an understanding that was simply a gift and it was receding in the darkness and I sat up in bed and called out after it but it simply fell to pieces in my mind

He said that if a person understood the soul of the horse then he would understand all horses that ever were.

You will see. It is difficult even for brothers to travel together on such a voyage. The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

Lo que escapa a mi conocimiento, escapa a mi consentimiento.

Ones convictions as to the nature of reality must also represent one's limitations as to the perception of it.

nessuna creatura può imparare ciò che il suo cuore non è predisposto ad imparare

È interessante sapere come funziona il mondo. [...] La gente mi chiede «Perche ti interessa la fisica?». Ma perche non dovrebbe? Per me, la cosa più curiosa di tutte è la mancanza di curiosità. Proprio non la capisco.

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

The world will take your life. But above all and lastly the world does not know that you are here. You think that you understand this. But you don't. Not in your heart you don't. If you did you would be terrified. And you're not. Not yet. And now, good night.

A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.

Sheddan said once that having read a few dozen books in common was more binding than blood.

Qualunque cosa esista, disse. Qualunque cosa esista nella creazione senza che io la conosca esiste senza il mio consenso.

You think sometimes I dont listen. I think you listen. I'm not so sure what you hear.

Suttree reached across the little space and took his uncle's willowing hands and composed them. I dont blame you, he said. I just want to tell you how some people are. I know how people are. I should know. Why should you? You think my father and his kind are a race apart. You can laugh at their pretensions, but you never question their right to the way of life they maintain.