Quotes About Understanding

For since we see in Christ some things so human that they appear to share in every aspect in the common frailty of humanity, and some things so divine that they are manifestly the expression of the primal and ineffable nature of the Divine, the narrowness of human understanding is inadequate to cope. Overcome with amazement and admiration, it knows not where to turn.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

So much failure is avoidable when we know how. Preventing failure—any kind of failure in personal, business, or public life—starts with understanding Why don't I do what I know I should do?, which

Empathy means challenging your preconceived ideas and setting aside your sense of what your think is true in order to learn what actually is true

It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble, it's what you know for sure that ain't so" Mark Twain

Empathy means challenging your preconceived ideas and setting aside your sense of what you think is true in order to learn what actually is true. that people aren't conscious of.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

faces tell stories if you learn to read them!

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

That's why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.

I'm only human, she told herself. There's not enough room in my heart for everyone.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

The life he heard over the phone was his life.

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

Todd murmelte stumm seine Verse mit, als ob er damit Neil helfen könnte. Aber Neil brauchte gar keine Hilfe.

It's all sad, Gruney," Hank said. "If we let ourselves know how sad it really is, there wouldn't be anything left of us.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.