Quotes About Understanding

The answer is that it does not matter what you think,' the monster said, 'because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times a day...Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

You know. And if you don't know, you don't want to.

His face and his Noise are as blank as I remember but the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

the first thing you find out when dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say about anything

I look up to him. His face and his Noise are as blank as I remember but the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

I am not your enemy, Todd Hewitt," he says one more time. "Just tell me her name and this will all stop." I

è questo che vogliono sempre fare, i mostri. Parlare.

Crazy people don't need an explanayshun for nothing.

E lui capì che era giunto il momento. Capì che davvero non c'era ritorno. Che sarebbe accaduto, qualunque cosa potesse desiderare, qualunque cosa potesse provare. E sapeva anche che l'avrebbe superato. Sarebbe stato terribile. Sarebbe stato ben più che terribile. Ma sarebbe sopravvissuto.

Assuming a thing ain't knowing a thing.

The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day.

We would have wanted you to like us. We realise now that we probably would have failed.

Yes,' said Jasper, flatly, 'and it was very illuminating. It is, perhaps, less illuminating now.

I know everything about you. What you hide. What you dream.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

even the silence, if you listened, meant something.

I think Upton Sinclair once wrote that a man has difficulty understanding something if his salary depends on his not understanding.

if you could just get people to talk, he believed, the most bitter antagonists could discover common ground.

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.