Quotes About Understanding

Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

if it does not appear reasonable to you, it is reasonable for you, to believe in God.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

Find the Grace in the things you can't change, and help somebody if you can.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

There is something in the eyes of a bonobo that you don't see in those of a tiger or a shark. They are human eyes, but not the cautious glimpse of a stranger you pass on a city street, or the pretended interest of a shrink you're paying $300 an hour. Or someone you think you recognize but don't. The eyes of a bonobo are the eyes of your best friend or a lover or a priest. They see into you. They see nothing else. They invite confession.

Love's not an emotion. It's a state of being, an ability.

The only sins are violations of love.

I wanted you to know me.

Anger is a wound gone mad.

Love is a quality, not a quantity.

My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.

Patience is being friends with Time.

The people knew what had made them human; it was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

There is no hospitality like understanding.

Understanding precedes peace.

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

To read is to enter an intercourse with a text.

Impara a conoscere chi ti sta vicino, se no camminerai sempre nel deserto

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

I stayed with my wife's mother during the war. I understood the war because I fought with my wife's mother.