Quotes About Understanding

Sometimes, maybe we don't know exactly what we have until someone shows us.

People were kind and friendly and amusing, but they thought that companionship and conversation were synonymous, and some of them had voices that jarred in your head. There was a lot to be said for dogs. They understood without telling you so, and they were always pleasing to look at, awake or asleep, like Bingo. He slept now, with little whistling snores, in his basket at the side of the fire, his stubby legs and one whiskery eyebrow twitching to the fitful tempo of his dreams.

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

All this I told Juniper, and she listened in the quiet, dispassionate way she had when you told her something truly terrible. It was as if she was joining things together in her mind, making some act of love and healing where otherwise all was violence and despair.

That night, JoAnn didn't want to leave, but she knew she had to go. She understood, in that quiet hour, things that only people who've walked to the edge know. Dying seemed almost compassionate - a way to escape the living hell. (283)

We have come to mistake information for knowledge.

Where to, Ona?" Belle asked, slowing down. They were on a first-name basis now, united in female solidarity after a twenty-minute conversation about cats. How women cemented alliances over less than nothing impressed him anew.

Lovers who have lived a lifetime together have the luxury of never having to say anything new.

Ni la Pensée de l'Autre, ni la Pensée de la Différence ne devraient être possibles pour nous, parce que "rien de ce qui est humain ne m'est étranger".

Hey, you know what your grandpa told me? Said, Always have a love song for your woman. This way, when they get to fussin'... You just sing that song to yourself. When you're through, she'll be done and you can get back to what you want, the lovin'. 'Cause that's all that fussing is anyway. Whole lotta lovin'.

called Xenophone

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.

Love is blind. I guess that's why it proceeds by the sense of touch.

Books are like friends you can never put them down no matter how much you hate it...

0.00000001% of what's happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

First of all, I love having sex with you. But I do know the difference, Kat. And I wouldn't have taken you to bed if I didn't love you.

I'm not teaching you how to move your feet; I'm teaching you how to move your mind

I want to know everything; my curiosity is boundless

El camino de un guerrero, el arte de la política, es detener los problemas antes de que comiencen. Consiste en derrotar a tus adversarios espiritualmente haciéndolos entender la ridiculez de sus acciones. El Camino del Guerrero es el de establecer armonía

If you have not Linked yourself To true emptiness, You will never understand The Art of Peace

The Art of Peace is the religion that is not a religion; it perfects and completes all religions.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

He concluded one of his books with the words: "He seems to me a very foolish man and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.