Quotes About Understanding

I will be at loose ends without a countryman to talk to." "I'm not a countryman of yours," Baynes said. "Oh, yes; that's so. But racially, you're quite close. For all intents and purposes the same.

Quando você é louco, aprende a ficar calado.

Realidade é aquela coisa que não desaparece quando você deixa de acreditar nela.

Aquilo que não faz sentido faz o maior sentido de todos.

Oh no, she said, still smiling; her eyes poured over with light, that of compassion. She understood how he felt, that this was not an impulse only. But the answer was still no, and, he knew, it would always be;

You discover I'm right," the door said. It sounded smug.

You and I, when we argue, are made in each other. For when I understand what you understand, I become your understanding, and am made in you, in a certain ineffable way. —Erigena

Era obvio que la empatía sólo se encontraba en la comunidad humana, en tanto que se podía hallar cierto grado de inteligencia en todas las especies, hasta en los arácnidos. Probablmente la facultad empática exigía un instinto de grupo sin cortapisas. A un organismo solitario, como una araña, de nada podía servirle.

All those centuries, regarded as a pretty and comforting fable by the world's intellectuals, something to lull people into accepting their fate. The understanding that, as predicted, it would one day be literally true, that it was not a myth—

Weltanschauung.

You don't disappoint me. I like you very much. I'm sure it is the climate that's getting you down.

Time ceased as the eyes gazed and the universe jelled along with him, at least for him, froze over with him and his understanding, as its inertness became complete. There was nothing he did not know; there was nothing left to happen.

No juzgo a nadie, ni siquiera a mí mismo

Telepathic power and empathy are two versions of the same thing.

On the whole it's not wise to remind the devil that he's the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

When her eyes spilled over with happiness, I saw she took your words to heart as I never could.

two brothers held together by what they can't share.

When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.

Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.

The fact was that where Will is concerned, she was developing a new kind of sense, as if he were simply more in focus than anyone she'd known before. Everything about him was clear and close and immediate.

Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.

Everything means something.