Quotes About Understanding

though he admires Elinor's drawings very much, it is not the admiration of a person who can understand their worth.

I did not understand you. I shut my eyes, and would not understand you, or do you justice. This is a recollection which ought to make me forgive every one sooner than myself.

but why he should say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable! How were people, at that rate, to be understood?

That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other." Later

Lady Robert is delighted with P. and P., and really was so, as I understand, before she knew who wrote it, for of course she knows now. He told her with as much satisfaction as if it were my wish.

These matters are always a secret, till it is found out that every body knows them.

And never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice?

and they soon drew from those inquiries the full conviction that one of them at least knew what it was to love. Of the lady's sensations they remained a little in doubt; but that the gentleman was overflowing with admiration was evident enough.

He sido mejor con él que conmigo mismo.

Elinor...whose advice was so effectual, possessed a strength of understanding and coolness of judgment...her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other

Such a companion for herself in the periods of anxiety and cheerlessness before her!

As these considerations occurred to her in painful succession, she wept for him, more than for herself.

El ceder sin convicción no habla en favor del entendimiento de ninguno de los dos .

nu merita sa il regreti! Si sper ca nu va trece mult timp pana cand vei intelege asta si cu inima, nu doar cu mintea.

Elinor abandonó sus esfuerzos, dejando que algún día la convenciera de que así eran las cosas lo único que podía llegar a convencerla: un conocimiento más profundo de la humanidad.

a whole day's tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.

To learn to read, after all, is a descent into silence.

Because you were loved you'll know how to love. And you will recognise real love for you.

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human.

How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn't work.

At that moment there was no need of any scientific knowledge to understand his communication of reassurance. The soft pressure of his fingers spoke to me not through my intellect but through a more primitive emotional channel: the barrier of untold centuries which has grown up during the separate evolution of man and chimpanzee was, for those few seconds, broken down. It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.