Quotes About Understanding

Sometimes naming a thing—giving it a name or discovering its name—helps one to begin to understand it. Knowing the name of a thing and knowing what that thing is for gives me even more of a handle on it.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Would it not be true to say that North Americans prefer to use reality rather than to know it?

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

Maybe sometimes it takes more courage not to fight. -Makino

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." ~Happy birthday Ogden Nash! (born 8.19.1902)

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

The role of emotional awareness is a second major theme running through the book. For the Karmapa, emotions serve as a force that is essential for translating intellectual understanding into positive action.

The frog in the well can't communicate with the ocean creatures, as it knows the depth of the sky. It's because the frog lived inside a cramped and small space, so he knows better than anyone, how precious freedom is.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

To know is sometimes good, but to have the wisdom to accept what you cannot know is better.

A true expert, instead, was one who understood a subject well enough to make its most intricate concepts accessible to a novice. The

Understanding, in fact, is my job, that's what writers are for--to try to understand everyone and everything and put this understanding into words, finished to the gossamer fineness of a rose petal, words made supple and obedient, words cut to hold the reader's mind like a well-made glove that fits like second skin.

Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.

Bvalltu, for such approximately was the philosopher's name, the "11" being pronounced more or less as in 27 Welsh, Bvalltu effected a "cure" by merely inviting

Aunque las potencias nos destruyan —dijo—, ¿quiénes somos para condenarlas? Sería lo mismo que una palabra juzgara al hombre que la ha pronunciado.

we are both in essence intelligent and sensitive beings, we can rise far above our differences, to reach across the gulf that separates us, and be together in this exquisite union of opposites.