Quotes About Understanding

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.

The wounded recognized the wounded.

There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.

Simple people always reduce everything to their own simple measure.

When you read you must get out of your own skin and into the skin of the people you are reading about, that is the only way to enjoy i

I was always asking myself why. Why am I feeling this? Thinking that if I knew the cause I could find the cure. But of course there was no reasonable why, at least not in the present. I was awash in an accumulation of past feelings and future dreads, all similar, at least as far as my brain was concerned, and so, lumped together as one. But nobody can handle a lifetime of experience in one moment. That's why depression crushes you.

There is one quality more important than "know-how" and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is "know-what" by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

It is difficult for the average person to achieve an historical perspective in which progress shall have been reduced to its proper dimensions.

Chihaya, however, looked at her in surprise. "Why should I be sorry? Morning Star is here, and so are you." Saya was somewhat relieved, although a little annoyed that he put his horse before her.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Time is the one thing that patients need most from their doctors--time to be heard, time to have things explained, time to reassured, time to be introduced by the doctor personally to specialists or other attendants whose very existence seems to reflect something new and threatening. yet the one thing that too many doctors find most difficult to command or manage is time.

If ignorance about the nature of pain is widespread, ignorance about the way pain-killing drugs is even more so. What is not generally understood is that many of the vaunted pain-killing drugs conceal the pain without correcting the underlying condition. They deaden the mechanism in the body that alerts the brain to the fact that something may be wrong. The body can pay a high price for suppression of pain without regard to its basic cause.

Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly.

We see with our brains, not with our eyes,

children learn their experience; they don't necessarily learn what we intend them to.")

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.

The student should master the entire work in not more than two hours.

We now see that the only way that we could love ourselves is by loving others, and the only way that we could truly love others is to love ourselves. The difference between self-love and love of others is very small, once we really understand.

Real empathy requires that we develop the capacity to put our own concerns aside long enough to notice what someone else is going through internally, without reference to ourselves.

For a word to be a word, it has to refer to something that is not a word.