Quotes About Understanding

But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.

it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait -- a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished.

Why do grown-ups think they can talk over your head? When my mother and her friends gossip, they think I don't understand what they're saying, because they talk all around a subject instead of using plain words. Or they don't finish a sentence and then give each other meaningful looks. Well, it doesn't take a genius to fill in the blanks--I've learned how to figure out what goes in blanks from taking school tests.

My dad is going to have to help us with this one," Greta said. "He's home all the time now, anyway, so I'll show him how to do it." That was the first time Greta had ever spoken to me about her dad's situation, and I wasn't about to press her to say more. Instead, I said, "It's lucky he can help," which sounded so dumb that I turned red in the face.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

If you wish me to weep, you yourselfMust first feel grief.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)

The hemlock tree is named spruce-pine, while spruce is he-balsam, balsam itself is she-balsam, laurel is ivy, and rhododendron is laurel.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

The most important ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with other people.

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

Si usted es querido alguna vez como yo lo fui, y ultraja como yo lo hice, comprenderá toda la pureza viril que hay en mi recuerdo.

It doesn't make any sense, does it?" "Some things don't," said the beetle, gloomily. "Don't be so sure," Aubrey said. "Everything makes sense if you can find the right way to look at it. What we need is a new perspective.

The boys are caught between a private conversation among themselves, a world only they can understand, and their awareness of the artist, the adult observer looking and listening. They remind me of us, of me and my fellow patients, the garments of the adult world not quite fitting us, the jumbled machinery of the day-to-day not quite belonging to us, asked to give an account of ourselves and unsure quite what to say.

How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.

Study the Speakers, Not the Sermons

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.