Quotes About Understanding

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

Il est difficile de voir quelqu'un obtenir ce que le monde désire, et de devoir le consoler, en prime.

For men, life is cool with us spending our time trying to understand them. Because great despair has a gender, too.

Being insecure -- now that's femininity. Unassuming. A good listener. Not too intellectually impressive. Just cultured enough to understand what some asshole has to say. Chatting is feminine. Anything that doesn't leave a mark.

Le plus difficile à admettre, c'est la certitude qu'on oubliera.

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.

The Karma-Yogi is the man who understands that the highest ideal is non-resistance, and who also knows that this non-resistance is the highest manifestation of power in actual possession, and also what is called the resisting of evil is but a step on the way towards the manifestation of this highest

We see then, in the study of Raja Yoga no faith or belief is necessary. Believe nothing until you find it out for yourself—that is what it teaches us. For, truth requires no prop to make it stand.

I do believe losing your head has made you more intelligent.

Una mujer sabe si ama a un hombre", decía. "Si no está segura, es que no lo ama

The exchange will always deepen, even if the friendship does not.

She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?

Each child wants to know immediately if he is a worthy person in your eyes. You cannot pretend, because the child knows all the things about himself that worry him. If you act like you like him, but ignore the things he is anxious about, it doesn't count. The child is glad you are nice to him, but deep down he figures if you really knew what he was like, you'd hate him. So your liking him without knowing him just makes him feel guilty.

Children are deeply curious about odd behaviors and seldom offended or worried by them. What a remarkable gift to bestow on another person, it occurs to me, and so difficult for adults to accomplish.

In studying history we are finding out about ourselves, and in the last resort the natural sciences and even mathematics have the same final end.

Still," I said, "I am sorry. But I was desperate to rescue my sister." "I understand," the sagging dragon assured me. He explained, "I, too, had a sister, once." The past tense didn't escape me. "What happened to her?" I asked, feeling we were connected, two of a kind after all, sharing similar personal tragedies. "I had to eat her," the dragon said, "to keep her from stealing my gold.

Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.

Do you think you could stop crying for a minute? It makes conversation a bit difficult.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.

Divido a la humanidad en dos campos bien diferenciados. Por un lado, el puñado de los que saben de qué se trata; por el otro, la inmensa multitud de los que no lo saben.

In almost all textbooks, even the best, this principle is presented so that it is impossible to understand.' (K. Jacobi, Lectures on Dynamics, 1842-1843). I have not chosen to break with tradition.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.