Quotes About Understanding

Unclaimed To make love with a stranger is the best. There is no riddle and there is no test. – To lie and love, not aching to make sense Of this night in the mesh of reference. To touch, unclaimed by fear of imminent day, And understand, as only strangers may. To feel the beat of foreign heart to heart Preferring neither to prolong nor part. To rest within the unknown arms and know That this is all there is; that this is so.

May we not be as foolish as we are almost bound to be. If we cannot eschew hatred, at least let us eschew group hatred. May we see that we could have been born as each other. May we, in short, believe in humane logic and perhaps, in due course, love.

I have learned to follow another voice, to be alone and to understand things - maybe to be alone and to be misunderstood.

And sometimes both of them forgot that what they were undergoing amid the clink of cutlery and crockery was a mutual interview that might decide whether or not they would own a common set of those items some time in the whimsical future.

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

A fine quotation has really no meaning only when one reads without getting any inspiration from it.

A hero is not the person who fights with his enemy but who turns his enemy into his friend.

A mirror can do something better for you which maybe your best friend can't. Cry and it will cry with you, laugh and it will laugh with you, feel alone and it will be with you.

A person can be used as a tool only if he doesn't know for what he is being taken.

A person can understand almost everything deeply through quotations.

A person is not ready to know if he knows that you know it.

A person who is angry with one is angry with the other.

A person who thinks that he knows something better doesn't know that his wife knows better than him.

A person without learning is like a beast dressed up in man's clothes in the field.

A successful marriage depends upon two things: to find the right person and to be the right person.

Always listen closely to what children have to say, because really we learn more from them each day.

An ignorant person is poorer than the man who has no money.

Children are like the rain, we shouldn't be angry with them because they just don't know how to fall upwards.

Do not create in anger what you lack in reason.

Do not stir up the water if you do not know how to catch fish.

Don't criticize or speak ill of a blind man.

Don't judge me if you don't know even a little about me.

Don't judge me just because you probably did the same thing.

Don't praise your wife before a year.