Quotes About Understanding

Alvin Josephy

When the Prophet says "brother," we should interpret this as universal brotherhood, which includes Muslims and non-Muslims.

every word, every sentence, has three possible meanings: what the speaker intends it to mean, what the hearer understands it to mean, and what it is commonly understood to mean.

Write so simply that any other officer who knows nothing of the subject can still understand you. To do this, avoid confusion and give words their ordinary meanings.

Good for you, Jason. It's perfectly natural to be angry with your mother for dying. Everybody who loses someone special goes through that. It's just part of the grieving process.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

Hearsay was far more important than knowledge[...]for it is easier to appear knowledgeable than to become so.

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language

Far from minimizing biblical truth, metaphors serve as magnifying glasses that identify truth we might otherwise miss.

S?uchaj, moje dziecko. Czy ty wiesz, czym by? chleb w getcie? Bo jak nie wiesz, to nigdy nie zrozumiesz, dlaczego tysi?ce ludzi mog?o dobrowolnie przyj?? i z chlebem jecha? do Treblinki. Nikt przecie? tego dotychczas nie zrozumia?.

Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.

Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.

To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all sorrow and an answer too fair and wonderful to be as yet understood.

She had the feeling that somehow, in the far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all sorrow and an answer too fair and wonderful to be as yet understood.

Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.

The only thing that can bring unfailing joy to the soul is to understand and know God. Everything depends on what He is. He has created us and put us in our present environment, and we are absolutely in His power.