Quotes About Understanding

El genio irlandés Parnell sabía la respuesta, pero nadie le formularía la pregunta.

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Recordando a Needleman Needleman no era un hombre fácil de comprender. Su reticencia era tenida por frialdad, pero poseía una gran capacidad de compasión.

La pregunta Escena II LINCOLN: La guerra no tiene nada que ver. Es mi sensibilidad hacia los sentimientos humanos.

El hombre no debe ser el promotor de su propia infelicidad; en realidad, el sufrimiento es fruto de la voluntad de Dios, aunque jamás alcance a comprender por qué Él disfruta tanto con ello

To be loved, certainly, is different from being admired, as one can be admired from afar but to really love someone it is essential to be in the same room with the person, crouching behind the drapes.

We weren't in love but we provided one another with reasonable companionship.

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, are well meant.

All of my words, if not well put or well taken, are well meant.

Everyone's needs are different, so in nurturing a relationship it is important for you to find out what the needs of your mate are and to provide for them.

People of true understanding nourish sages and through them, nourish the whole world.

Saber: qué verbo amargo.

Tiene la paciencia de un escusado: ni habla, ni se mueve, ni reclama. Entiende que más tarde o más temprano le va a caer su mojón.

En castellano se está enamorado, pero en inglés se cae en el amor, y luego se está en él como en el centro de un capullo.

Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.

Being able to see the end of anything gave him a tremendous sense of relief. As a child he had assumed the goal of medicine was to keep bodies alive forever; he had never considered the pain of not being able to die.

Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.

Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.

Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?

Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention? The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.