Quotes About Understanding

IF YOU WANT A DOG TO STOP KISSING YOU, turn your head away silently like another dog. —Jack Kerouac Some of the Dharma

There are truths, I know with all certainty, that I will never grasp, but that doesn't make them any less true.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't you ecstatic?

IF YOU WANT A DOG TO STOP KISSING YOU, turn your head away silently like another dog.

Never, therefore, allow yourselves to despise those who do not follow your rules of life: but force your hearts to love them, and pray to God for them; and let humility be always whispering it into your ears, that you yourselves would fall from those rules to-morrow, if God should leave you to your own strength and wisdom.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?

William Loren Katz

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. William Lyon Phelps

Every one of these lessons would serve me well in the years ahead as I began applying the secrets I learned from the long-dead to understanding the stories of the recently murdered. BY

if you just take the outward, literal words of scripture and try to be obedient to the letter without desiring to be obedient to the full spirit of the passage, then it harms you rather than helps you.

La conciencia del creyente necesita ser educada por el Espíritu de Dios a través de la Palabra de Dios. De

Faithful are the wounds of a friend." We should not resent it if we are counseled or warned in a godly manner. Rather, we should realize that any person who would do this really has an interest in us. Righteous rebuke should be taken as from the Lord, and we should be grateful for it.

El creyente más humilde puede ver más sobre sus rodillas que el incrédulo más culto de puntillas. Consideremos

Both were men who knew the frontier code and each other. At a time of action speech, beyond the curtest of monosyllables, was surplusage.

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds.

What you say about me, you're really saying about yourself.

That good-looking Mrs. Penmark, that dizzy blonde, didn't know what it was all about. She was too dumb, when you came right down to it, to understand his contempt for her. She was one of them soft, easily-taken-in ones that went around feeling sorry for people. She was one of the ones that was eat up with kindness

Later that day, when Rhoda returned from church, she had her prize tucked under her arm; it was a copy of Elsie Dinsmore, and, going at once to the park, she opened her book and began eagerly to read, as though she hoped to find there an understanding of those puzzling values she saw in others

And part of growin' up is learnin' to see the world through other men's eyes.

Hob is not a plaything or a human toy.