Quotes About Understanding

How close we hug our enemies! They are our familiars, our other selves.

I can pity you, without entirely believing you.

The only things he cannot remember are the things he never knew. His

Men will never understand it till they stop confusing love with sex, which will be never. (pp54)

One can learn from that, he thinks.

And yet … he feels something, in his heart, and then he sits down and works out the logic of it, in his head. Then he says that the head part came first; and we believe him.

Try always, Wolsey says, to find out what people wear under their clothes.

Castiglione says that everything that can be understood by men can be understood by women, that their apprehension is the same, their faculties, no doubt their loves and hates.

Because Islam doesn't," he said, his voice toneless

Listen, Cromwell. You don't get a good name among the lowly by sharing their concerns and handing out coin. You get their respect by overlooking them, as if you did not understand their sort, and your own belly had never been empty.' 'I could not so belie myself.

think women carry this faculty into later life: the faculty for love, I mean. Men will never understand it till they stop confusing love with sex, which will be never. Even today, there are ten or twenty women I love: for a turn of phrase or wrist, for a bruised-looking ankle where the veins have blossomed out, for a squeeze of the hand or for a voice on the end of the phone. I would no more go to bed with any of them than I would drown myself; and drowning is my most feared form of death.

Metaphors are good,' he said. 'I like metaphors. Metaphors don't kill people.

As the combatants will always tell you, you really needed to see it, you had to be there. . .

Let him hear the conclusion of events; he does not need to live through them.

I doubt if there is much I can teach them. Or much they can learn.

You seem very calm. Yes. Learn from it.

how to retell exactly what had been said and done, without putting your own interpretation on it, and submit it to another judgement? It wasn't possible.

He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.

You can't be disgusting to people just because they annoy you!" she exclaimed very crossly. "Thousands of people annoy me! Millions of people annoy millions of people all the time! . . . You have to put up with them.

Very helpful, I must say. Look at them in the eye and shout, and they understand every word..." (Mr. Warbeck in Sienna, talking about local Italians.)

Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it's dangerous.

Reason is the root, through which the resonant word flourishes.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.