Quotes About Understanding

Said by Colin the dragon: It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed, when in reality you're all all tiresomely similiar in outlook, needs and motivation, and differ only by peculiar habits, generally shaped by geographical circumstance.

being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed when in reality you're all tiresomely similar in outlook, needs and motivation, and differ only by peculiar habits, generally shaped by geographical circumstances.

The people to listen to are the ones who don't say very much

Humans are more or less identical except for a few peculiar habits generally delineated by geographic circumstances and historical precedent. But essentially, they´re all identical and reading from the same rulebook. To get along you have to appreciate the rules, but also know that other people know the rules - and that they know that you know the rules. Get it?

Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.

Much that we had appreciated about one another had been left unsaid. In humor, in life and in love, we had understood.

is a power lurking in all of us, an emotional energy that can be used to move objects and manipulate matter. But it doesn't follow any physical laws that we can, as yet, understand; it exists only in our hearts and minds.

I . . . I . . . didn't know I could do this." "What you mean is that you did know that you couldn't—it's quite a different thing.

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

There was something she wasn't telling me, but I had to trust her—only a fool ignores a local guide. "Okay

I watched her leave, smiling to myself. I thought I knew my mother but I didn't. Children rarely know their parents at all.

I don't really get the whole intellect-through-isolation thing, I said. I'm not sure anyone can claim to understand the human condition until he's talked two people out of a fight, smoothed over a best friend's marital breakup or dealt effectively with a teenager's huffy silence

El mejor que he tenido nunca: eramos tan amigos que ni siquiera necesitábamos hablar cuando estabamos juntos.

si sabes lo que te ha pasado, y lo entiendes, puedes dominarlo; si no lo sabes y no lo entiendes, entonces es eso lo que te domina a ti. Y te come por dentro.

A veces tengo la impresión de que escribo para entender la vida

Lo que quiero decir es que quien siempre sabe adónde va nunca llega a ninguna parte, y que sólo se sabe lo que se quiere decir cuando ya se ha dicho

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what's going on, our ears don't have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can't hide from what they sense they're about to hear, it's always too late.

I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it's one of the innumerable languages I don't know, even if it's in an indistinguishable murmur or imperceptible whisper, even if it would be better that I didn't understand and what's said is not intended for my ears or is said precisely so I won't understand it.

Yet the past is ever with us and all that we are and that we have comes from the past. We are its products and we live immersed in it. Not to understand it and feel it as something living within us is not to understand the present. To combine it with the present and extend it to the future, to break from it where it cannot be so united, to make of all this the pulsating and vibrating material for thought and action—that is life.

An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple

Writer and researcher of group dynamics Christina Baldwin once said, "Words are how we think, story is how we link.

When we really understand it, we will always find grace offensive. And that's exactly the way it should be. If we start to feel comfortable with grace, then we've lost what it really means.

Knowledge is the currency of the twenty-first century.