Quotes About Understanding

Just that you should expect as much as any other woman.

Le risque d'aimer, c'est d'aimer autant les défauts que les qualités, ils sont indissociables.

Ma un giorno tu mi hai detto che anche il peggiore di noi ha le ali nascoste da qualche parte e che bisogna aiutarlo ad aprirle invece di condannarlo.

Assimilate the principles (or, core) of a system, and you can tack on the details later if you're interested.

If you learn how to read the different operating systems and how they affect people's behavior, you will be much safer.

Como se de se

The first component of self-defense, "understanding violence

Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.

absorb them, and relegate them to the status

the king would have lacked both the time and the depth of understanding to have done any of the intellectual heavy

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

Author Mark Twain (1835–1910) had this take on riddles (both of the puzzling and the philosophical variety): "Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

Le sage, le bon général ou le médecin clairvoyant est celui qui sait voir et lire là où les autres ne voient encore rien.

To really know someone is to have love and hated him in turn.

Le coeur a ses prisons que l'intelligence n'ouvre pas. [in De la grandeur]

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Das ist die Schwäche der Vernunft: wir bedienen uns ihrer meist nur zur Rechtfertigung unseres Glaubens.

je levais la main et je demandais des explications

If only she would let me talk to her! I'm sure I could change her mind...That's what is needed, to change her mind. But how?

Quand on ne sait pas grand chose, on est toujours cruel pour ceux qui savent encore moins.

Not only does one not retain all at once the truly rare works, but even within such works it is the least precious parts that one perceives first. Less deceptive than life, these great masterpieces do not give us their best at the beginning.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.