Quotes About Understanding

the only thing left to do is love

When you get older you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.

It's so easy to see people as less than they are, as less than people.

Don't judge people by their kinfolk. —Dutch Callahan

Except he hadn't fully appreciated what he had until it was gone.

Friendships take just as much TLC as romantic relationships.

Hey, if you can't get what you want, maybe you could accept what you need.

For one amazing moment, the entire world made sense. It was as if she understood the meaning of everything. And love was all that there was.

There's none so blind as those who will not see.

There are three ways to argue with a woman. None of them work. —Dutch Callahan

Comfort and a vast understanding that love couldn't be killed. They would always love the people they'd lost, but that didn't mean they couldn't love each other as well. Love.

when he was a little kid he'd had trouble understanding why those poor children in China were more important to them than he was.

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

Give fools the first and women the last word.

Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.

I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

I loved you with the scientific excuse of the lonely.

What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book several times instead of just once.

Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.

Latin [...], it was the sign of being able to detach yourself from here and now, abstract your understanding of words, train your memory and live solitary in your head with only books for company. So it was meant to be hard, but I found it wonderfully easy, for just these reasons. I fell in love with Latin.

Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something... ... Asagai: It means... it means One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough.