Quotes About Understanding

I ask merely for information.

The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.  They are so far away from us that only the poet can understand them.

A ti te gusta todo el mundo, o lo que es lo mismo, no te importa nadie

You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!

Quien verdaderamente abriga en sí el amor, encuentra amor para consigo.

You don't understand what friendship is, Harry, he murmured—or what enmity is, for that matter. You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

Kinder lieben ihre Eltern zuerst. Nach einer Weile beurteilen sie sie. Selten, wenn je, verzeihen sie ihnen.

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

A misanthrope I can understand—a womanthrope, never!

All'inizio i figli amano i genitori; diventando grandi li giudicano; qualche volta li perdonano

And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

In my time, of course, we were taught not to understand anything. That was the old system, and wonderfully interesting it was. I assure you that the amount of things I and my poor dear sister were taught not to understand was quite extraordinary.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being.

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Existen venenos tan sutiles que para conocer sus propiedades hay que probarlos. Existen enfermedades tan extrañas que uno tiene que sufrirlas para comprender su esencia

Influir en una persona supone darle nuestra alma

have a wonderful instinct about things.  They can discover everything except the obvious.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

the man was never comfortable unless he was in the company of people who were crazier than he was.

Wisdom should be freely available to all men without smart-alecky impediments

If you want to know where a person is coming from, you need to read this material, not tear it up! You got to see what makes him think what he thinks! -Ann Atwater