Quotes About Understanding

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.

Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

History is not hatred.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

People have different ways of interpreting history.

The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.

It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right.

History is philosophy learned from examples.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

Language is the only homeland.

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.

Home is where you feel unjudged, and where what I do isn't necessarily stupid or wrong.