Quotes About Understanding

You have two eyes, and two ears, but only one mouth. This is so because you are supposed to look and listen more than you talk.

Because you're a girl and when a girl says she's fine, she's lying.

I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.

I can't answer you in a nutshell. We wouldn't fit unless we saw the same shrink.

'Why are you yelling at the television when you know they cannot hear you?' 'You wouldn't understand, ' said Asher, his gaze locked on the screen. 'It's a human thing.'

[Hearing] was distinct from listening, which could only be achieved when hearing was combined with giving a shit.

...Be friend with Thief ... he will make you understand what is wrong doing ...

...I guess I can put two and two together.""Sometimes the answer's four, " I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...

The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.

My mother was either telepathic or she had secret cameras in my apartment, and I hoped for the latter.

God, how I hate the fact that I know this stuff. It only proves that it is possible to learn by osmosis.

Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.

Anyone who knows me, and most of my fans, know that I have a sense of humor.

And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!

I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you've just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.