Quotes About Understanding

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how; Everything is happy now.

Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.

Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning -- the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind.

Unable to bring himself to believe in a God who offers salvation, the philosopher is above all one who believes that by understanding the world, by understanding ourselves and others as far our intelligence permits, we shall succeed in overcoming fear, through clear-sightedness rather than blind faith.

write clearly, to refrain from obscure allusions or from supposing that my audience possesses any prior knowledge

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Every human being is an archeological site.

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

I love to you" is more unusual than "I love you," but respects the two more: I love to who you are, to what you do, without reducing you to an object of my love.

Anybody says he knows just how someone else feels is a fool.

I love houses, all the things they tell me, so that's one reason. I don't mind working as a cleaning woman. It's just like reading a book.

The people who were content with each other spoke as little as those who bristled with resentment or boredom; it was the rhythm of their speech that differed, like a lazy tennis ball batted back and forth or the quick swattings of a fly. *

I've never understood how so many barely literate people read the Bible so much. It's hard.

Los borrachos están indefectiblemente solos. Los suicidas vienen acompañados al menos por otra persona, en general varias más. Que tal vez era la idea en un principio. Mínimo dos agentes de la policía de Oakland. Al final he entendido por qué el suicidio se considera delito.

Anytime you think you hate somebody, what you do is pray for them. Try it, you'll see.

Una cosa sé de la muerte. Cuanto "mejor" es la persona, cuanto más cariñosa, feliz y comprensiva, menor es el vacío que deja su muerte.

When I'm with Joe none of this matters. I think he is a reporter because he likes to talk to people. Wherever we go we end up talking to strangers. And liking them. I don't think I ever really liked the world until I met him. My parents don't like the world, or me, or they would trust me.