Quotes About Understanding

To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs.

Some kids prefer to engage with characters who are dealing with, say, bullying, gender identity, and racism outside the confines of the all-too-real world readers themselves live in.

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .... one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who lets her cry...

I learned not to invest too much in a relationship before I really know how the other person feels.

Love isn't always enough. It's a hard lesson because we're raised to believe that it is—it's in every story we hear. But just because you love somebody and they love you back doesn't mean your relationship makes sense or that it's a good one for you both to be in. Having chemistry with someone is important, yes, but the most important thing is that the person you're with makes you happy.

no one finds a braggart wise. And once I no longer thought of listening as "waiting to talk," I began to have more meaningful conversations.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

I've never subscribed to that 'Love means never having to say you're sorry' bullshit. In fact, love means you always get the chance to say you're sorry. When we love someone, we always want to forgive them.

There must be a different kind of love, one I haven't felt yet, when someone looks at you just like you're looking at him and you don't have to say anything.

the death of someone close to them. The girls I see show the same signs of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as the soldiers coming back from Iraq and

Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.

And gun-owning truck drivers in Louisiana have more in common with trishul-wielding Hindus in India, bearded Islamists in Pakistan, and nationalists and populists elsewhere, than any of them realize.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

But some things are best grasped without the sense of sight.

He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

anyone who thinks that all fruits ripen at the same time as strawberries, knows nothing of grapes.

Quien no conoce nada, no ama nada. Quien no puede hacer nada, no comprende nada. Quien nada comprende, nada vale. Pero quien comprende también ama, observa, ve… Cuanto mayor es el conocimiento inherente a una cosa, más grande es el amor… Quien cree que todas las frutas maduran al mismo tiempo que las frutillas nada sabe acerca de las uvas.

Aquele que imagina que todos os frutos amadurecem ao mesmo tempo, como as cerejas, nada sabe a respeito das uvas.

Quem, nada pode fazer, nada compreende. Quem nada compreende, nada vale.

quem compreende também ama, observa, vê... Quanto mais conhecimento houver inerente numa coisa tanto maior o amor...

For who could be taught the knowledge of experience from paper? Since paper has the property to produce lazy and sleepy people, who are haughty and learn to persuade themselves and to fl y without wings. . . . Therefore the most fundamental thing is to hasten to experience.