Quotes About Understanding

What a lot you know.' I laughed and said it was one of the few advantages of old age, to be a repository of bits and pieces of casual information that sometimes come in useful. But she said she didn't really mean that, she meant know as distinct from remember.

Even when I'm not looking for a meaning one springs naturally to my mind. Do you think it is a disease?

If there are things you don't know, you call the gap in your knowledge a mystery and fill it in with a wholly emotional answer.

She wanted to ask, How long? A year? Less more? Any time? But she had lived long enough to know that you did not ask questions to which there were no answers and which you didn't want answered.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.

Knowledge was always purposive: it was characterised by a will to dominate or appropriate.

WHAT YOU ARE DOING ALREADY. WE WILL SHARE MUCH MORE KNOWLEDGE WITH YOU IN THE FUTURE. ALTHOUGH YOU UNDERSTAND A LOT, WE WILL SHOW YOU MUCH MORE. CONTINUE TO WORK WITH PEOPLE THAT COME TO YOU. WE ARE AWARE OF THE SMALL GROUPS THAT ARE FORMING AROUND THE WORLD AND WE HAVE ADVICE. YOU WILL RECEIVE MORE KNOWLEDGE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

as Henry James had said in a letter to a do-gooding friend, "Only don't, I beseech you, generalize too much in these sympathies and tendernesses—remember that every life is a special problem which is not yours but another's, and content yourself with the terrible algebra of your own.

If he doesn't talk to me, and he doesn't walk around with me, and he doesn't travel in the same compartment,' I said, 'I don't understand why he wants to come with me.' 'To make sure you are comfortable. Hospitality. You are our guest ...

Sometimes a whispered word, or a single image or glimpse of humanity, can be a powerful motivation for looking deeper into the world.

Why is it . . . that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in

The humane aspects of Zoroastrianism probably accounted for its diminution as a faith, if not its failure. A religion needs harshness and hokum to succeed, and all Zarathustra taught was understanding the earthly elements, the turn of the year, the one God.

All this confession and evasion, in the relentless interrogation of language learning, sometimes led to awkwardness.

I asked them to amplify a bit.

If we expect compassion, we must be ready to offer compassion.

The one big difference between John and me, besides the fact that he's a boy and I'm a girl, is I have compassion.

This is writing. This is printing. This tells us of all the things we ought to know in the world. And also that we ought to want to know.

My sweet angel," he had said, "you mean you still haven't understood that you no longer belong to me, that I'm no longer the master who's in charge of you?" Not

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.

Why is patience so important? Because it makes us pay attention.

He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.