Quotes About Understanding

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly aware of it - and there seemed to be an understanding that we were all very much in the same boat.

I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.

I definitely don't want to appropriate... not in an 'overly PC' way though.

As someone who grew up in a military family, I know what it's like to have those you care about serve overseas.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.

The project workers are the ones most familiar with the territory of the project. If a given direction doesn't make sense to them, it doesn't make any sense at all.

Any so-called training experience that lacks the slow-down characteristic is an exercise in nonlearning.

More often than not, wisdom is at the mercy of curiosity.

Dawn crept up out of the trees, defining a bole, a burl, a leaf at a time the world he'd spent the night trying to comprehend. But what would daylight offer except the illusion of understanding? At least in darkness you were spared the pretending.

At some point, Alice slipped one arm and then the other into the coat's sleeves, she buttoned its buttons, starting at the top. Silas had followed her, still not seeing what an emblem of defeat, shame, loss, hopelessness, the coat was. With such gaps in his understanding, he saw very clearly how the boy he'd been had grown up to be the man he was.

Larry felt a strange forgiveness for him because all monsters were misunderstood.

The beads of his words strung with too much silence between them.

That's what Jesse had never understood: she didn't even want to. She'd known, too, for the first time, that her mother had been lucky to die in childbirth, still one with the baby dying within her.

Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream. Maybe only then could a man like Ingersoll make sense.

He wished he understood better how the pieces of his life fit together. Would another man with these same pieces see the whole picture?...having certain kinds of smarts didn't necessarily make him smart, he'd come to figure. He seemed to have blind spots. His heart was one.

They'd already shouted to each other the facts, but they hadn't had time to press the hurt spots.

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

If you don't write with the reader in mind, you are not a writer, period.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

At its most basic, to love God with all your mind is to know that God's thoughts are thoughts of love toward you and to decide that your thoughts will be thoughts of love toward God.

The fish fanciers, sitting by their ponds and gazing into their depths, were tracing shadows darker than they understood.