Quotes About Understanding

Friends, like pianos, need frequent tuning. You are in the right key when you sing the praises of others. —HEATHER MACGREGOR

All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

the infinite capacity of humans to wound one another without meaning or wanting to

Only when something ends can we understand what it has meant. In

I've found that all it usually takes to draw out an engineer is to ask a couple of technical questions and then remain calm while listening to the answers. Most people tend to take on a blank, frightened look as soon as they realize that a technical explanation is under way; if you can resist giving this reaction and simply listen, your engineer will open up and tell you everything you ever wanted to know.

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say is what counts.

Chi ti ama c'è sempre, Angela, c'è prima di conoscerti, c'è prima di te.

Chi ti ama c'è sempre, c'è prima di te, prima di conoscerti

Eravamo abituati uno sguardo così, l'uno accanto all'altra in silenzio, non ci dispiaceva.

There's no explaining love. It stands by itself; it makes mistakes and struggles on its own.

Hai sempre avuto questa capacità d'infilarti sotto la pelle degli altri…

Le voglio bene. È una di quelle persone un po' distratte che si fanno voler bene per forza.

She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew this before she did.

Perry was leaning into my mother as he listened to what she said. They talked so close. He only leaned closer, his hands on the table, his leg touching hers. "It's so risky," my mother said. "Why are you doing this?" "Because I'm human being. Because we're all human beings." My mother closed her eyes and winced. Maybe her hearing aid was ringing and bothering her, but as I watched her turn down the volume, I wanted to tell her right then that she couldn't quiet all those outside voices forever.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

The mind is not sex-typed.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.