Quotes About Understanding

De leerling, die de meester vragen stelt om wijzer te worden, moet niet worden bestraft, als hij alles wil onderzoeken.

There is quite often argument and discord, as much in outlook as in conversation, between old people and young ones, to the point that they can hardly stand each other, as though they were members of two different species.

Tatty says oh yes, she knows what he's like. But when she thinks about it, she doesn't.

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.

I wasn't going to argue with you. Why ever would you think that? I never argue." Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it amazed him she was such a strong person. "Of course you do not argue. What was I thinking? Go to sleep, honey, and allow my poor body to rest." "I'm already asleep. You're the one gabbing.

Maybe no one can explain love. They can only be in it.

Language is unique in that there are no other animals with which we converse, no matter what language we are speaking. And yet the miracle of this research has been the realization that what is unique from one perspective may be constructed of mostly old parts from another.

Study the past if you would define the future. —Confucius O

At its most fundamental, language is an act of shared attention, and without the fundamentally human willingness to listen to what another person is saying, language would not work.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. —Golda Meir

when someone apologizes, you have to forgive them.

We would never ask a hearing student to comprehend a lecture in Mandarin if he or she did not have proficiency in the language. Nevertheless, we ask this feat of deaf children everyday.

So come Cinderella, let me take you to the ball again. Perhaps you will see more than I did, or perhaps you will begin to understand how difficult it is to understand. Truth is never easily wrested from the stuff of life, and this stuff was even stranger and sometimes more repellent than the usual fare.

there is but a single reality out there, and science is getting increasingly better at describing it.

All people want to be touched. —Diana

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

Here I'd been thinking that just because someone spoke English we'd understand each other. But I guess there are languages within languages, and those can be foreign, too, even when you think you're understanding each other.

Being in love isn't irrational, he said. It only looks like that to people who have never felt it.

Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don't understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious now, so banal.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Love Is: being able to keep your fucking mouth shut.

Mairi stared at Parlabane with an expression he had seen too often down the years: that look of distress at having discovered precisely how deep the rabbit hole goes, and what darkness lay at its end.

Zal wasn't sure whether it would help an uninformed