Quotes About Understanding

friends will be much apart.they will respect more other's privacy than their communion.

Se equivoca; las mujeres necesitamos otra información sobre un hombre como ése. No conocemos la calidez de su voz, si conversa mirando a los ojos, si su abrazo nos hace sentir pequeñas. A una mujer no le interesa un hombre que necesita ser rescatado. Como empleado, tal vez, concluye, pero para amar a un hombre, el alma buena es lo de menos.

Descubrí que los amigos nunca se apenan del todo en tu desgracia, porque les ofrece la más hermosa oportunidad para demostrate cuánto les importas, cuánto se preocupan por ti, cuán geneerosa es su disposición.

Es detestable pensar en el público, lo único interesante es pensar en una persona que te escucha.

Ningún hijo quiere conocer a fondo a sus padres. Sería demoledor. Todos se creen el primer humano sobre la tierra.

They were taught to be technicians, not thinkers, in a culture that is long on know-how and short on know-why.

It is not well to forget the past," Douglass warned in a speech later in the 1880s. "Memory was given to man for some wise purpose. The past is . . . the mirror in which we may discern the dim outlines of the future and by which we may make them more symmetrical.

knowledge increased, but like the circumference of an expanding circle, ignorance grew as well.

That sounds strangely little like justice, Tisipohone jibed gently. On the contrary. Alicia jacked a discarding sabot round into the M-97's chamber and settled her left hand briefly on the forestock to activate its computer systems. I won't do a thing to them unless they intend to do something to me. Indeed? Indeed. But if they do have something planned, I intend to do unto them first. So there are times you see things my way after all. Never said there weren't.

I wish I knew what he called himself. I'm sure that treecats have their own names for themselves." "Me, too," Stephanie agreed, "and I bet they have their own names for us, too. I just hope mine isn't 'Source of Celery.

as his mother had always told him, ignorance could be fixed; stupid was forever. "My

perhaps the cardinal element, was the belief that the book was never closed, never ended. God was infinite; Man's understanding was not. And so, there would always be more for Man to learn, more for God to teach him, and as the doctrine of the Test taught, it was best to pay attention to one's lessons, whatever the form in which they might come.

need for you to infect him, since he already had a good sense

We name mostly in order to control but what is worth loving does not want to be held within the bounds of too narrow a calling. In many ways love has already named us before we can even begin to speak back to it, before we can utter the right words or understand what has happened to us or is continuing to happen to us: an invitation to the most difficult art of all, to love without naming at all.

The distance had been evaporated by humor

He said the best contract lawyers were the ones who heard the unspoken. The hopes and dreams and fears that both sides held, sometimes so tightly they didn't even know it themselves. A good contract attorney has to be a mediator first and foremost. And the best mediator is someone who can translate conflicting emotions into some form of harmony. But to do that, they have to look beneath the surface. See the unseen. Hear the unspoken.

No one but a person who has been guilty himself could read guilt in others so well.

Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy.

Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct

In the land of the blind the third eyed man is king

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

Perhaps you have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what you know.

We are not strangers to ourselves; we only try to be.

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognize, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years. Each of us has his agenda and focuses on it, and therefore we are often blind to what is before our eyes.