Quotes About Understanding

If you turn into a hideous monster and I am sent to slay you, I will remember this and make it as painless as I can, out of respect for you.

It's not everyone who can teach you something about faith without saying a word to do it.

There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.

You can't go around making people's choices for them. Not if you love them.

Peabody may not have seen the man turn into a grizzly, but he was bright enough to know that Injun Joe was getting set to adjust another relative ass-to-ears ratio.

You can describe it to them as much as you want. You can write books about what you felt, what you experienced. You can compose poems and songs about what it was like. But until they've seen it for themselves, they can't really know what it is you're talking about. A few people will clearly see the effect it had on you, will understand that much, at least. But they won't know.

Ohhhh," Molly said wisely. "Those are fun-time handcuffs, not bad-time handcuffs. I gotcha.

That's the true power of a wizard. I know things. Knowledge is power. With power comes responsibility.

Significance is cumulative—but not always obvious.

Reason. Reason was my next line of defense. Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

Anger subsides. Love doesn't.

Speak only to those who listen. Anything else is a waste of breath. The answers to your questions were there, if you listened for them.

I hate that you're here with me," I said. I know. And I'm glad that you're here with me." I know.

Sometimes you don't know the most important things," Tavi said. "You believe them.

In the void, there is no distinction of east and west. Gwen blinked slightly at that. I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean.

Death is only frightening from the near side.

You aren't explaining it very well." "Maybe," I said. "Or maybe you aren't learning it very well.

When I look into someone's eyes, into their soul, their innermost being, they can see mine in return—the things I had done, the things I was willing to do, the things I was capable of doing.

your ability to comprehend your environment is very strongly defined by your belief in a number of illusions. Time. Truth. Love.

Everything's mine, Francis," she replied in a merry tone. "The only question is whether or not it knows it is yet.

You can describe it to them as much as you want. You can write books about what you felt, what you experienced. You can compose poems and songs about what it was like. But until they've seen it for themselves, they can't really know what it is you're talking about. A few people will clearly see the effect it had on you, will understand that much, at least. But they won't know.

Kitai blinked slowly. Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous. We have a lot of words like that, Tavi said. They can mean more than one thing. That is stupid, Kitai said. It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.

The older you get, I should think, the more you will come to understand that the universe is very much a looking glass, Miss Lancaster." "Meaning what, precisely?" "That it reflects a great deal more of yourself to your senses than you probably know.

This is why you're all kernels and I'm a major general. 'Cause you got corn silk in your ears.