Quotes About Understanding

What strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world of men, whose affections they strive endlessly to secure, whose authority they are expected unquestioningly to obey, and whose minds they can never do more than imperfectly reach and comprehend.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

There are not a few people to whom I would far rather speak about their own sins, than tell them their children had done anything wrong.

Understanding the meaning of a biblical passage involves the whole person — mind, emotions, body, and so on. Unbelievers, by definition, do not accept the things of the Spirit of God.

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it.

This story leads us to epiphanies—when we suddenly understand essential truths about life—which were the eighth wonder of life.

Ha sempre sospettato che la signora madre, in un lontano passato in cui era giovanissima e immaginosa, ha scelto di farsi morta per non dovere morire. Da lì deve venire quella sua speciale capacità di accettare ogni noia col massimo della condiscendenza e il minimo dello sforzo.

Sapete, alle volte è l'amore degli altri che ci innamora: vediamo una persona solo quando essa chiede i nostri occhi.

Conosceva tutti i pettegolezzi del paese, ma non era maligna, anzi cercava di rimediare a tutte le gelosie, a tutte le invidie, mettendo una mezza parola di qua, una allusione benevola di la'. Sempre disposta a vedere il bene nascosto tra i mali come un fico maturo e succoso in mezzo alle pale spinose e impolverate della convivenza quotidiana.

If you wish to live in harmony, you must respect every person and, in non-essential matters, yield!

Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

Faith is nothing but knowledge that what we understand is only a shadow of the Unknown. Faith is the science of the pitiful limitations of man's mental scope.

My favorite ethnic group is smart.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.