Quotes About Understanding

From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.

Silence was never written down.

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remain brotherless.

Illness tells us what we are.

One reads alone, even in another's presence.

They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now.

Si conobbero. Lui conobbe lei e se stesso, perché in verità non s'era mai saputo. E lei conobbe lui e se stessa, perché pur essendosi saputa sempre, mai s'era potuta riconoscere così.

Today each of you is the object of the other's reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

La lettura è solitudine. Si legge da soli anche quando si è in due.

Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.

In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices.

Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.

And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now.

You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before

Maybe you have to become a mother to get to the real sense of everything. Or a prostitute.

the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there; and he retraced the stages of his journeys, and he came to know the port from which he set sail, and the familiar places of his youth, and the surroundings of home...

Now that he is no longer here I should be interested in so many things: philosophy, politics, history. I follow the news, read books, but they befuddle me. What he meant to say is not there, for he understood something else, something that was all-embracing, and he could not say it in words but only by living as he did.

although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic.

We live in a country where causes are always seen but never effects.

The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but life begins again at the end of the page, and one realises that one has knew nothing whatsoever.

Es preciso que entre las cosas pensadas y las cosas no haya más diferencias. Entonces seremos felices.

Leave me like this. I have come full circle and I understand. The world must be read backward. All is clear.

Il bassotto alzò il muso verso di lui, con lo sguardo dei cani quando non capiscono e non sanno che possono aver ragione a non capire.