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Quotes About Understanding

Could it not be the case that if one loves something one sees it better and more truly than if one did not love it?
~ Vincent Van Gogh
En ender rastlanan çiçeklerin açt??? yerleri bilirdi.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I'd wish that everyone had what I'm gradually beginning to acquire, the ability to read a book easily and quickly and to retain a strong impression of it. Reading books is like looking at paintings: without doubting, without hesitating, with self-assurance, one must find beautiful that which is beautiful.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Ludilo je spasonosno, jer ?ovek možda postaje manje isklju?iv.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
But if we keep to the positive fact of wanting to produce and to be something, then we can talk over accomplished facts, when it cannot be avoided, without getting angry, even if they might concern, or stand in direct relation with, the Goupils or our family. Besides, these questions are between you and me for a better understanding of the situation, and not out of spite.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Maybe I didn't know her as well as I might have wanted. But I can tell you this: love mattered a great deal to Scarlet Montana. I think it must have mattered to Jake too. Because if love hadn't been important to them, they wouldn't have fallen to pieces when it suddenly abandoned them.
~ Unknown
We fell back into a silence that was neither uncomfortable nor comfortable
~ Unknown
Ciò che più parla nelle parole è il silenzio.
~ Unknown
Há pessoas com quem as palavras são desnecessárias. Nos entendíamos e amávamos mudamente, meu pai e eu. Talvez pelo fato de sua figura emocionar-me tanto, evitei sempre pisar com ele o terreno das coisas emocionais, pois estou certo de que, se começássemos a falar, cairíamos os dois em pranto, tão grandes eram em nós os motivos para chorar.
~ Vinicius de Moraes
A gente não faz amigos, reconhece-os
~ Vinicius de Moraes
I smiled, for now I understood that it was not an obsession with death that Mexicans had after all, but rather an acceptance of it - woven like a thick vine throughout our lives, helping us transcend death itself and compelling us to live even richer, more meaningful lives.
~ Unknown
that we have become a society that prizes opinion over fact, argument over discussion, and a fuzzy view of a possible future over a clear understanding of the past.
~ Unknown
To understand the real impact of changes in the national state of mind, one has to wait for at least a few decades.
~ Unknown
we have become a society that prizes opinion over fact, argument over discussion, and a fuzzy view of a possible future over a clear understanding of the past. A
~ Unknown
we have become a society that prizes opinion over fact, argument over discussion, and a fuzzy view of a possible future over a clear understanding of the past.
~ Unknown
In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don't differ from science.
~ Unknown
Happy the man who could search out the causes of things.
~ Virgil
Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.
~ Virgil
Lat., Now I know what love is.
~ Virgil
Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.
~ Virgil
Press no further with hate.
~ Virgil
The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
~ Unknown