Quotes About Understanding

What is love? To be delighted by the happiness of another.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

Be careful whom you choose to hate. The small and the vulnerable own a protection great enough, if you could but see it, to melt you into jelly. Beware those who reside beneath the shadow of the Wings.

Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.

It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in this world.

I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.

Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

The paradox of our modern world is that we know so much about so many things, about how things work, but so little about who we are as persons, why we are.

Science ... is organized common sense.

I like to be judged by my family and friends because they know me.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.

I always try to turn the spotlight on the other person." The longer you keep it shining away from you, the more interesting he or she finds you.

grow more by listening than talking.

Do humanity and yourself a favor. Never, ever, give just a one-sentence response to the question, "Where are you from?" Give the asker some fuel for his tank, some fodder for his trough.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Leil Lowndes

He disliked English, not because they had invaded his country, but because of the effort required to understand their different languages and customs. At the same time, he was in no hurry for them to leave, for he admired them, most of the time, not for the modernity they were establishing but for the business opportunities they brought with them.

It was more as if they recognized they were two halves of a whole who'd found their missing part.

silence. Finally, he said, "So you and

Love ain't got no business happenin' to the young. Only the old be wise enough to treat it right.