Quotes About Understanding

I had never really thought of children as people, just as mysterious and needy creatures on their way to something greater.

I think I know who you are," he finally said. "It took me a minute, since you're better looking than I thought you'd be, but I think I've got it.

There's something special about her. When she helped me with her touch-" "Exactly what was she touching that was so memorable for you?" "Watch your mouth.

If I need something you can't give, I need to walk away, because sooner or later, all I'll see is what you can't give. I won't be able to see what you can.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn't look too closely at another person's pain.

i'm never going to understand the Barrani." "You needn't sound so morose, Lord Kaylin. They are unlikely to understand you either." "Yes, but I'm unlikely to try to kill them for fun.

We already know that when two don't agree, they can't walk together. Opens the door to confusion.

Special children require very patient parents. Anybody can lose it with a normal pre-teenager, let alone one who needs extra help and guidance.

You've got to learn to let people be themselves,

Sometimes, when little kids say crazy stuff we got to act like it don't bother us none so they won't clam up and stop talkin' when they get older.

the truth isn't in the facts, and the facts don't always tell the truth. The truth is in the experience.

Some folk need a few good homeless, hungry, sleepless nights to make the voice of God real clear. Other folk need a soft bed and a warm meal before they can hear Him. He knows, and He has to let me know, too.

Old folk sure had a way of pointing out the obvious.

Was I supposed to make friends with whites and Hispanics and every other type of person on the globe? And

Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.

I plays Joe's best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger.

We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exercise power. For those upon whom that power is exercised, naiveté is always a mistake.

Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.

sixteenth-century philosopher Michel de Montaigne once wrote, "When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not playing with me rather than I with her?

To understand the precise point when the possible becomes the impossible, you have to appreciate and understand the laws of physics.

Friendship is higher than love. Sometimes, it's less glamorous, or less passionate, but it's deeper and kind of wiser, I think.

I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

Molly stood up. You made an error! She felt like saying. A bad throw. So what? It's a baseball game. A game. Who really cares? A bad throw? In the great scheme of things? A bad throw? Of course she didn't say that. She understood that your own errors always feel tragic.