Quotes About Understanding

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The ceremonial key to the city of Padua] is engraved with a quote from Galileo that is also on display at the physics department of the university...'I deem it of more value to find out a truth about however light a matter than to engage in long disputes about the greatest questions without achieving any truth.

But speculation is the only way to make progress in our understanding.

We just hold each other. Where I was once lost, he's found me. But I know now that I have only begun to truly discover Chris. He's still lost.

Baby, I held back today to let you get over all you've been through. But don't let that mislead you. You wouldn't be here if I planned on protecting you from me.

He pulls the door shut behind him and drags me against him, murmuring softly, "I understand why you left. I understand everything." I cling to him, holding on for what feels like dear life. "I should have told you." "You would have." He pulls back to look at me. "When you were ready. We all have to deal with our inner demons in our own way, in our own time.

If you tell me you don't want to be with me. I will listen. I won't like it, but I'll listen. I need you to know that. But when you say you 'can't' be with me, like some obstacle out of your control is stopping you from seeing me, I'm not going to listen.

That is control. Whether you want it or understand it.

I have that sense of connection with her.

Then he says, "In a way, no one else has. No one.

What do I have to do to convince you I'm the one you should run to , not away from? Tell me and I'll do it.

I know until he owns me, until he feels like he has real control, we'll never have a real conversation.

I know my limits," he assures him. "You just don't like that I know yours.

Do you feel me the way I feel you, Harper?

And if you yourself are incompatible with your view of the world?

There's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.

Movie Jesus is a whole lot different from Bible Jesus

It's not so easy to dismiss people you disagree with when you sense God working in their lives too. Later,

This is all true. So much so that the simplicity of the words feels about as right as a sunrise over mountains or the gasp of knowing that occurs when you realize for the first time that you understood something you'd been trying to grasp for years, and the difficulty wasn't in its complexity but its simplicity. There was something you'd been missing, something you didn't even know to look for.

One of the human limitations in medicine is that no one can know everything.

It is much more important to know what kind of patient has the disease than what sort of disease the person has," Osler instructed his trainees at the turn of the twentieth century.

Listen carefully, I'm going to say three words." "I love you?

Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.

May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.