Quotes About Understanding

If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

E quando si vedono le cose future con tanta chiarezza, come già stessero succedendo, allora è segno che non devono succedere mai. Perchè son già successe, in un certo senso, nella nostra testa, e non è più consentito di provarle davvero.

La quotidiana solitudine è l'unico mezzo che noi abbiamo di partecipare alla vita del prossimo, perduto e stretto in una solitudine uguale.

not a body of facts, it is a way of thinking.

Understanding engenders care.

Reach out of the deep chasm of your loneliness and express yourself to another human being.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accept us.

Failure is a hard word for people to take. Use the word kindness then instead. Let yourself be kind. And this kindness comes from an understanding of what it is to be a human being. Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure—just a big field to wander in.

Go ahead; take Kant's PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSIC and get it to show what he is telling. We would all be a lot happier.

Ninety percent of writing is about listening.

Naked Lunch, after the novel by William Burroughs—"a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Laura, this isn't love. Love lets you go on a trip without following you. Love can live without you for a week, knowing you'll come back.' 'No, it can't.' The afternoon shadows grew long and cold. In spite of the chill, a heat rose up inside her and flooded her face. 'That's how you know it's true love. When he can't live without you.' Karen shook her head. 'That's how you know it's obsession. Or something else.

When we were upset as little girls, Dad used to say, "Let's go to the window and see if we see anyone as unhappy as we are." And he would lead us to the window, where we'd watch people pass by in the street until we cheered up.

Writers step into their subject's shoes so readers can walk in them.

Im bli?sza osoba, tym trudniej o czysty odbiór - wypatrujemy tego, co nam znane, nie dowierzamy temu, co obce i zamiast si? otworzy?, szukamy potwierdze?.

What we normally mean by 'education,' " he once told a crowd of wolf advocates, is, "I want someone else to know what I know so they will have my values." In his experience, it didn't work that way.

but the watchers knew their story

Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.

I listen to Alicia practice a speech for class, and I don't look at the clock even once. In fact, for the next week, I take my time with

Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.