Quotes About Understanding

Soy David, ya me conoces –dijo, y se adelantó. –¡No, no te conozco! –David Stenfäldt, del pueblo... –¡Cierra la boca! –lo interrumpió Natte–. No puedo oír si hay alguien más por ahí. David no tenía ganas de continuar y dio un paso adelante.

No one understood the simple truth: Klas had realized that what is most beautiful must be also most fragile. Now this is scary and hard to bear when you are little and don't know anything about the nature of glass. For it is very upsetting that the most beautiful things in life shatter so easily.

Det er klart disse unge hadde handlet i god tro, en måtte vel tilgi dem. Skjønt de fleste syntes nok at ungdommer nå til dags var litt vel foretaksomme.

Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant. Speak to me.

How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson.

Knowing a man for a fool, why should I trouble myself with his maggots?

BesideCother art to be learned -- not to see what is not.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Even so those who teach little children too often have the idea that they are educating babies and seek to place themselves on the child's level by approaching him with games, and often with foolish stories. Instead of all this, we must know how to call to the man which lies dormant within the soul of the child.

From the child itself he will learn how to perfect himself as an educator.

Teach by teaching, not by correcting.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

Our work is not to teach, but to help the absorbent mind in its work of development. How marvelous it would be if by our help, if by an intelligent treatment of the child, if by understanding the needs of his physical life and by feeding his intellect, we could prolong the period of functioning of the absorbent mind!

Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

There is a great deal of nonsense written on the subject of diversity and multiculturalism, but the fact remains that the great challenge facing our world is that of maintaining clear convictions and strong commitments while living in peaceful proximity with people with different convictions and commitments, avoiding brittle bigotry on the one hand and soggy relativism on the other.

Danny smiles. Really smiles--like it means a lot that I'm not mad at him anymore. And then I figure out something weird: that you can be important to someone who doesn't mean much to you. But that once you find that out--that you mean something to them--it's hard not to feel that they mean something to you.

Listening - It's an old-fashioned concept, I know".

Guess when you no one's listening, you just stop talking.

I don't want there to be bad feelings between us, Rachel." "You mean, maybe we could be friends?" "Oh, at the very least, yes. Friends. That's a start.

Guess when you know no one's listening, you just stop talking.

People do stupid, thoughtless things every day, and very often there's no understanding why.

Hindsight's a bitch, isn't it?

Friendship is complicated, Maggie thought. Families are complicated. Love is complicated.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.