Quotes About Understanding

No, you don't understand because it isn't happening to you, and no one can understand but me. I don't blame you. You've got your job to do, and your Ph.D. to get, and-oh, yes don't tell me, I know you're in this largely out of love of humanity, but you've got your life to live and we don't happen to belong on the same level. I passed your floor on the way up, nad now I'm passing it on the way down, and I don't think I'll be taking this elevator again. So let's just say good-bye here and now.

Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for my knowledge and understanding. Why? What in God's name did they want of me?

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men. A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

I am just as far away from Alice with an I.Q. of 185 as I was when I had an I.Q. of 70. And this time we both know it.

When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you may not even want me.

Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understand me. He reminds me that language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. Ironic to find myself on the other side of the intellectual fence.

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.

Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have some respect! He's a human being!

A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it.

It was as if I had been looking at the whole thing clearly on the blackboard of my mind, but when I turned to read it, part of it had been erased and the rest didn't make sense.

I will never know. Whatever the truth is, I must not hate Rose

Each day I learn more and more about myself, and the memories that began as ripples now wash over me in high-breaking waves . . .

She had agreed to go away when i tell her to go. It's painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime.

what's wrong with a person wanting to be more intelligent, to acquire knowledge, and understand himself and the world?" "If you'd read your Bible, Charlie, you'd know that it's not meant for man to know more than was given to him to know by the Lord

Results are often negative. We learn what something is not - and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

It's confusing, but I'm going to find out all about my life.

Se você é intelijente você podi ter muitos amigos pra conversar e você nunca fica solitário sosinho o tempo todo.

Ama onu suçlam?yorum, çünkü benim kim olduÄŸumu anlama çabalar?m?n ve varl???m?n tüm anlam?n?n, sadece geçmiÅŸimle deÄŸil, geleceÄŸimle ilgili olas?l?klar? ve sadece nereden geldiÄŸimi deÄŸil, nereye gittiÄŸimi de bilmekten geçtiÄŸini bir türlü anlam?yor.

I've got to work out the rule. If I can find that out, and if it adds even one jot of information to whatever else has been discovered about mental retardation and the possibility of helping others like myself, I will be satisfied. Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born.

It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during the past months has coalesced and lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy.

I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem—they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.

Antes, riam de mim, desprezando-me por minha ignorância e estupidez; agora, eles me odiavam por meu conhecimento e compreensão.