Quotes About Understanding

People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Too often, the anthropologist takes on the role of police detective, discovering what is "hidden," assembling "evidence" to make a strong "case"... But sometimes what is called for is not an "investigator" at all, but an attentive listener.

And I call it like I see it and my glasses on. But most of yall dont get the picture less the flash is on.

If everyone was like you the World would be a better place.

Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.

So keep your mouth closed and let your eyes listen.

Swallow my words, taste my thoughts, and if they to nasty spit it back at me.

Whats understood dont gotta be explained.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

Women's accounts of outdoor adventures repeatedly show how men and women can be in the same place while still in different worlds.

Why must one religion be hounded by another? What gives them the right to punish and persecute someone of a different faith? Why?

People who really appreciated animals always asked their names.

One should be able to say anything to a close friend, he reflected, and yet part of friendship was knowing what not to say and when not to say it

Are you listening, little bird?

He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear.

You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends." Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.

Can I…I mean, do you mind if I sleep up here? If you don't, I, um, understand. I just—" "Yes." The word bolted out of me. "Yes, please. Maybe I'll be able to sleep if you're here.

Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works

I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.

With twenty-twenty hindsight I could solve every fucking problem, couldn't I?

sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.