Quotes About Understanding

I mean that memory and association come before comprehension, so that one ought to know all good things—fa—with familiarity before one can understand, because understanding does not make one love. Oh! one does that before, and, when the first little gleam, little bit of a sparklet of the meaning does come, then it is so valuable and so delightful.

Having found the book which has a message for us, let us not be guilty of the folly of saying we have read it. We might as well say we have breakfasted, as if breakfasting on one day should last us for every day! The book that helps us deserves many readings, for assimilation comes by slow degrees.

like Ariel released from his tree prison, a beautiful human being leaps out of many a human prison at the touch of sympathy .

Our only means of true intimacy with a child is the power of recovering our own childhood.

It is far easier to govern from a height, as it were, than from the intimacy of close personal contact. But you cannot be quite frank and easy with beings who are obviously of a higher and of another order than yourself; at least, you cannot when you are a little boy...But it is much to a child to know that he may question, may talk of the thing that perplexes him, and that there is comprehension for his perplexities.

It was not you, it was your eyes – I spoke to them.

You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

I want to see the world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes.

She did not love You like the rest.

John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.

It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.

Why, European visitors tell us, we don't know what poverty is." "Neither do we," answered Zava. "Won't you tell us?

It is not true, always, my dear,' said he, 'that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach; at least it's not the only way.

Democracy calls for the understanding, recognition, and universal practise of social laws,—laws which are "natural," like those of physics and chemistry; but your religion—and your education, too— taught Authority—not real law.

Do you know you are a real comfort," she told him suddenly. "I never knew a man before who could—well, leave off being a man for a moment and just be a human creature.

I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.

The point of an animal was not for it to love you; it was that you could love it. In all it's otherness, your unbelonging to its kind, it could yet receive-boundlessly-your love.

All this counting and measuring of nanoparticles, each one thirty-billionths of a metre. She had been trying to measure how much of herself she had lost, had been waiting for the possibility of splendour, waiting to understand why she had given herself, so completely, away. She would not wait anymore. She

Lack of courage keeps us from understanding others' perspectives.

Leaders and managers please bake your content cake with context chocolate – it looks better & goes down easier...

Look closely at wisdom – there is a very small space between "wiz" and "dumb" -

You can't translate something that was never in a language in the first place.

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

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