Quotes About Understanding

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

When the mind is free of any thought or judgment, it is still and acts like a mirror. Then and only then can we know things as they are.

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

Come away, O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

There is some Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all that he did and thought.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Go your ways, O go your ways I choose another mark, Girls down on the seashore Who understand the dark

When I was growing up, my mother taught me the language of birds; and when I got married, I used to be listening to their conversation; and I would be laughing; and my wife would be asking what was the reason of my laughing, but I did not like to tell her

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

You shall love your crooked neighbor with you crooked heart.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.

There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a dictionary is absolutely passive and may legitimately be read in an infinite number of ways.

What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?

The underlying reason for writing is to bridge the gulf between one person and another.

Here am I, Here are you: but what does it mean? What are we going to do?

Only as I am, can I love you as you are

How much must be forgotten out of love, How much must be forgiven, even love.