Quotes About Understanding

I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning." A verse from Ecclesiastes.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

1. Theology is important because correct doctrinal beliefs are essential to the relationship between the believer and God.

You cannot be sure that you are right, unless you understand the arguments against your view better than your opponents do. by Milton Friedman (p.10)

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even when they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

The most important phase of living with a person is respect for that person as an individual.

Ali, upamti, pismen gleda u knjigu, nau?en gleda u mudrog, a mudar gleda u nebo ili u suknju, što može i nepismen...

How easily language makes one remember something that that language neither says nor wants to say and that would never occur to you, no matter what you are told.

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way.

Às vezes, a leitura de um livro desvela uma pessoa.

congressman was a hog that could understand only a blow on the snout.

because she would not believe that she was no different than her parents, that seeing him as only Korean—good or bad—was the same as seeing him only as a bad Korean. She could not see his humanity, and Noa realized that this was what he wanted most of all: to be seen as human.

Even if there were hundred bad Japanese, if there was one good one, he refused to make a blanket statement

It's not that you don't understand, it's that you don't like it.

She could not see his humanity, and Noa realized that this was what he wanted most of all: to be seen as human.

She wished she had something like baseball that she could talk about with her daughter—a safe subject they could visit without subtext or aggression.

Listen, if people don't like you, it's not always your fault. My brother told me that.

that a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that

It was his way to ask many questions when he wanted to know someone's mind. Most people told you their thoughts in words and later confirmed them in actions.