Quotes About Understanding

people have been trying to understand dogs ever since the beginning of time. One never knows what they'll do. You can read every day where a dog saved the life of a drowning child, or lay down his life for his master. Some people call this loyalty. I don't. I may be wrong, but I call it love—the deepest kind of love.

I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

What is it in the human condition that tries to impose our own view onto others, without the ability, capacity, propensity, to receive somebody else's openly?

the more opinions you have, the less you see

Stories give people the feeling that there is meaning, that there is ultimately an order lurking behind the incredible confusion of appearances and phenomena that surrounds them. This order is what people require more than anything else.

But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence

For she was clever. It had not been a lie then, that ecstasy which had visited her when she read A Midsummer Night's Dream on top of the railway coach last summer. It had meant something. She had understood something. She was drunk with an intoxicating wine of gladness.

Eugene saw that God-part of people. He saw that and defined me in that way. The other stuff didn't define me. That was astounding. -Cuba Odneal

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed

Non complicate le cose, ci saranno già le cose a complicarsi da sole.

Not for the first time he was conscious of emotional lights and shades in his wife that could not be categorized, could not be named as sensuous or emotional as such, perhaps derived from each and gave to each but in essence grew out of a deeper fund of temperament that he still could not altogether apprehend. The simple miner's daughter was not simple in character at all.

It is hopeless for older people to tell younger ones – particularly their own children – that they have been through the same thing. Such information is no use at all! It bounces off one's own grief – or jealousy or distress. If we are all born the same we are also all born unique – we all go through torments nobody else has ever had.

How old are you?" "Thirteen…sur." It was the first time she had sirred him. He might have known that these undersized, half-starved waifs were always older than they looked.

Demelza said: 'It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.

For if you wish to discover a man's true feelings, it is always best to provoke him.

I thought, the way to love is through suffering. Who had said that? Did it mean anything or was it just the usual talk?

Demelza did give him encouragement, of a sort. She was always exchanging asides with him, making another

no one expected you to have. I trust he appreciates the

Lui fece girare il frustino ancora e ancora tra le dita. «Sai che non ti odio. Buon Dio, dovresti sapere che...»

Devi avere un ottimo controllo sui tuoi sentimenti visto che li rigiri come più ti piace. Vorrei esserne capace anch'io. Qual è il segreto?»

ma Ross ormai conosceva Verity meglio di quanto la conoscessero suo padre e suo fratello. Il suo affetto nasceva lentamente, ma era difficile da spezzare. [...]