Quotes About Understanding

Intercourse is the organic expression of two psyches, not a mechanical plugging in.

Words are gold, split and shared as coinage, small pebbles, emblems offered back and forth-given, received; given, received-expanding the vocabulary of the soul

To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see its exact relationship with other things: for a thing is its relations and activities.

To be educated is to know how much one wishes to know and to have the courage not to be tempted beyond this limit .

Culture teaches that there is much one does not want to know .

Even reason is individualized, and becomes merely the reasoning of an individual without power or authority to oblige acceptance by others: to convince a man is not to enjoy a common understanding with him, but to displace his reason by yours.111

TEACHER Next. I am afraid -- STUDENT I em afred -- TEACHER We are out -- STUDENT Wee are out -- TEACHER Of badgers. STUDENT Of badjurs. TEACHER Would you accept -- STUDENT Wud you accept -- TEACHER A wolverine -- STUDENT A wolver-eene -- TEACHER In its place?

Use your knowledge to ask questions, not to tell people what you know.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.

She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.

Palpatine sought power over others. Yoda sought power from within. Palpatine wanted control of everything, in the hopes of building what he thought would be a perfect universe. Yoda gave up the idea of controlling or perfecting the universe, in the hopes of understanding it.

Remember, your dad loves you and he always wanted more for you than he ever wanted for himself. And if he pushes your buttons, just tell yourself that he's a master at doing that because he's the one who installed them in the first place.

Te îndr?goste?ti de ea? - E prea devreme s? îmi dau seama.

To misunderstand salvation is to fail to understand fully who the Savior is.

Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

Look, Malia, I know your theory. But you can't go round putting people's backs up!' 'I certainly wouldn't wish to do that!' said Dr Malia. 'Well, it annoys people, you know.' 'I'm sorry about that. I try not to get in the way.' 'Well, maybe, but – It's just that you're always creeping around.

You hold an eternal soul in your hands. You cannot afford to give in to weariness, indifference, laziness, or careless neglect. God chose you two as the parents of these children! It is now your responsibility to determine what level of understanding your child possesses and to hold him accountable at that level.

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.

Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance.

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.

Unlike the others, Bridger understood instantly. In his mind he had seen this vision before. His guilt swelled up, churning like a paddle wheel in his stomach. He wanted desperately to flee. How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

It means there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.