Quotes About Understanding

I waited beside my son, but he scarcely knew it. His eyes had found the horizon, that seam of waves and sky.

How is Paphos, my love?" "Fine," he said. Just that ugly, nothing word.

Each man or woman who passed, she knew their history and would tell it to me, for she said that you must understand people if you would rule them.

perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

It is not fair," I said. "It cannot be." "Those are two different things," my grandmother said.

I cannot account for the fact that she married me, but since it is to my benefit, I try not to bring it to her attention.

I did not see the worst of him. Even at his best he was not an easy man. But he was a friend to me in a time when I needed one.

There is this, too." His hand was ceaseless now. "I know I have told you of this." I closed my eyes. "Tell me again," I said.

When Telegonus came, I saw him eyeing me, waiting for another outburst. But I was pleasant. He should not be so surprised, I thought. I could be pleasant.

Did he know how much those words cost me? I do not think he could. It is youth's gift not to feel its debts.

he buired his face in his hands and did not speak. i held him and whispered all the bits of broken comfort i could find.

That was the moment I lived for, when it all came clear at last and the spell could sing with its pure note, for me and me alone.

If they did not weep, I would not either.

It's absolutely impossible to talk of any woman to another woman without betraying the absent one. They must have blood! Every word you speak is a betrayal. They're not satisfied otherwise.

The things that make us happy make us wise.

Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour all the inarticulate perceptions, all the knowings and unknowings she felt, which, though he couldn't understand them really, he would receive reverently, and out of him would come then the advice, the warnings, the clever decisions she could never have made.

It occurred to him that seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story.

Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it -Barrow's Uncertainty Principle

If the deep logic of what determines the value of the fine-structure constant also played a significant role in our understanding of all the physical processes in which the fine-structure constant enters, then we would be stymied. Fortunately, we do not need to know everything before we can know something.

The task is not to explain the being of the world but to interpret our place in the world based upon what we know about the world at the time, which is what is what the authors of the scriptures were doing and why we have to start all over again in every new age.

Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor. It needs contemplation, fallow periods, the measured and guided study of the history of man's reiteration of the most agonizing question of all: Why?

Sama seperti perkawinan, persahabatan tergantung pada menghindari hal-hal yang tidak termaafkan.

I know just enough about myself to know I cannot settle for one of those simplifications which indignant people seize upon to make understandable a world too complex for their comprehension. Astrology, health food, flag waving, bible thumping, Zen, nudism, nihilism—all of these are grotesque simplifications which small dreary people adopt in the hope of thereby finding The Answer, because the very concept that maybe there is no answer, never has been, never will be, terrifies them.

I don't often do this much talking for so little reason, McGee. You have a nice touch. You're an eager listener. You smile in the right places. It puts people on. And, of course, you haven't leveled with me.