Quotes About Understanding

I want to learn about other cultures. I want to hear other voices.

And so it seemed to her that he had always been a part of the landscape of her life, this great white bear. She brought him rosehips to sweeten his days, tried to explain how, once they had been flowers, but now were seeds. He had never seen a rose. He told her stories, coloured with every shade of white, and spoke of a sky that danced with lights. She felt that he understood how the world began, how it might end. And, even before they met, he walked in her dreams.

She whispered into the ear of the dreaming bear. If I said that my love for you was like the spaces between the notes of a wren's song, would you understand? Would you perceive my love to be, therefore, hardly present, almost nothing?

The day that she stopped speaking was the day she began to understand so much more about the world around her, to appreciate the many textures of silence. She learned to listen.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Henry Flagler: "Do unto others as they would do unto you—and do it first.

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

Men speak in absolutes, women in uncertainties, and this often strikes us as a weakness in women, but it's knowledge: a knowledge that we cannot know, not ever.

We needed fish, really, but I could not speak Fish.

Puedes andar con otra persona durante semanas y meses sin percibir los hermosos diseños de sus plumas. Y cuando finalmente los ves, te das cuenta que los has destrozado en mil pedazos.

I think I know you absolutely.

There is no right or wrong; there is no one truth, there are lots of truths. And you girls should translate the world into as many different languages as possible. If you see the world in just one language, your world becomes too small.

I feel like people are always speaking with their eyes, their bodies, their hands, gestures, intonation, and their words - only mostly all we hear are the words. And the words get in the way. So if we just spoke with our eyes we might get closer to the truth.

We forgive our friends their darkness and focus on their light. Assuming the light returns. If it doesn't, well, the friend must want to sleep, so shut the door and leave them to it.

How shall the love of God be understood by those who have been nurtured in sight only of the greed of man?

The fence that makes good neighbors need to get to make good friends

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.