Quotes About Understanding

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

But sometimes I knew things with my heart that my mind could not explain.

Friendship does not depend on conversation. Sometimes the most important communication is not mouth to ear, but heart to heart.

Einstein vigorously wagged his tail. Thoughtfully, Nora said, "Escaped . . ." Travis knew what she must be thinking. To Einstein, he said, "They'll be looking for you, won't they?" The dog whined and wagged his tail—which Travis interpreted as a "yes" with a special edge of anxiety.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

The dead are sensitive to the living. They have walked this path ahead of us and know our fears, our failings, our desperate hopes, and how much we cherish what cannot last. They pity us, I think, and no doubt they should.

Everyone thinks his family is strange, Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, but it's just that... because we're closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying glass, through a thicker lens of emotion, and we exaggerate their eccentricities.

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognise, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years.

Regardless of how rough we may appear on the exterior, each of us had a human heart.

Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.

she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, [...]

I was learning how people were with one another, how they acted and reacted and interacted, what they said and how they said it, what they wanted, what they hoped for—more than I could learn from books alone.

I knew what love felt like, for I had loved Father and, less powerfully

What I do not know is the only thing I know, and in that paradox sits Trixie. I do not know what she was in the fullness of her being, other than a dog, but I know the effect she had on us, and I know that she was both flesh and mystery, and therefore I know that she was something more than I can know.

Life is full of mysteries, isn't it? And maybe we don't always need to know the answers to them. Each thing we don't understand is a wall, and we spend our lives throwing ourselves against those walls, with little to show for it in the end. Maybe sometimes it's just best to accept the limitations of our understanding, accept that some things will be forever beyond our knowledge.

I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood.

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: the feel deeply, to care profoundly.

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog.

Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog had meant to him, his chest grew tight with emotion.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog.

Intuition was the highest form of knowledge, antecedent to all teaching, not reliant on reasoning.

Intuition is the highest form of knowledge.

Life is full of mysteries, isn't it? And maybe we don't always need to know the answers to them. Each thing we don't understand is a wall, and we spend our lives throwing ourselves against those walls, with little to show for it in the end. Maybe sometimes it's just best to accept the limitations of our understanding, accept that some things will be forever beyond our