Quotes About Understanding

Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.

Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?

It's simple. Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

good rule of thumb is to ask yourself, "Do I have enough information to actually build this project?" If not, keep asking more questions and doing more research until you do.

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

O círculo em que podemos ter comunicações reais com outros seres é muito estreito: não se deve buscar ampliá-lo indefinidamente. Aqui só a qualidade importa. Numa comunicação real com um único ser, já estão contidas as relações de todos os homens entre si.

Actually, the gap between say Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human.

If you look up a word in the dictionary, you find it defined by a string of other words, the meanings of which can be discovered by looking them up in a dictionary, leading to more words that can be looked up in turn. There is no exit from the dictionary.

There aren't any other times or worlds. That's how everything gets messed up, thinking like that.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

het is jammer, dat ons alleen maar feiten over de mens worden medegedeeld - wij hebben feiten teveel - het is iets anders wat we omtrent de mens verlangen te weten - onze gedachten, die vreemde, welke nog steeds de oorsprong zijn van ons onbegrijpelijke gedrag.

understanding the excitement that drove this religion requires that we consider always the perspectives of the faithful.

You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.

No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding.