Quotes About Understanding

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

Una historia es como un fruto seco - dijo Vashet -. Un necio se la traga entera y se atraganta. Otro necio la tira creyendo que no tiene ningún valor. - Sonrió -. Pero una mujer sabia encuentra la manera de romper la cáscara y comerse el fruto que hay en el interior.

There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.

I don't speak fluent bumpkin...

The majority of important things cannot be said outright, they cannot be made explicit. They can only be implied.

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. Some might take offense at this way of seeing things, not understanding how a trouper views his music. They might think I degrade women. They might consider me callous, or boorish, or crude. But those people do not understand love, or music, or me.

Music explains itself...It is the road and it is the map that shows the road. It is both together.

I love her more than just a little. I think it's because we're both somewhat broken, in our own odd ways. More importantly, we're both aware of it.

Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold. That, I think, was easier than this. Trying to make you understand her with nothing more than words. You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.

Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.

Vorfelan rhinata morie" "El deseo de conocimiento forma a un hombre" - Wil

A story is like a nut. A fool will swallow it whole and choke. A fool will throw it away, think it of little worth. But a wise woman finds a way to crack the shell and eat the meant inside.

Recuerda esto, hijo mío, aunque olvides todo lo demás: un poeta es un músico que no sabe cantar. Las palabras tienen que encontrar la mente de un hombre si pretenden llegar a su corazón, y la mente de algunos hombres es lamentablemente pequeña. La música llega al corazón por pequeña o acérrima que sea la mente de quien la escucha.

Generalmente, el miedo proviene de la ignorancia. Una vez que supe cuál era el problema, este pasó a ser solo un problema y no algo que temer.

Do all the women in the world secretly know each other?" Sim asked. "Because that would explain a lot.

No one enjoys being talked down to, but I have a particular aversion to it.

Nothing was nothing else. Nothing was anything it shouldn't be.

Utilizar palabras para hablar de palabras es como utilizar un lápiz para hacer un dibujo de ese lápiz sobre ese mismo lápiz. Imposible. Desconcertante. Frustrante.

I realized how common this feeling is. I've had person after person tell me that they empathize with Auri. That they know where she's coming from. I didn't expect that. I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way.