Quotes About Understanding

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

It is a difficult thing for a white man to learn what a colored man really thinks; because, generally, with the latter an additional and different light must be brought to bear on what he thinks; and his thoughts are often influenced by considerations so delicate and subtle that it would be impossible for him to confess or explain them to one of the opposite race.

I noticed that among this class of colored men the word "nigger" was freely used in about the same sense as the word "fellow," and sometimes as a term of almost endearment; but I soon learned that its use was positively and absolutely prohibited to white men.

Please don't say maana if you don't mean it I have heard those words for so very long. Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it. Don't ever forget that you just may wind up being wrong.

It is hard for anyone to read with understanding what one takes to be wrong or wrong-headed.

The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.

Sometimes, it is almost frightening to realise how poorly most people know themselves; it seems to put one at an almost priestly advantage over people's souls.

I will putter as though I had not heard,And lift him into my arms and singWhether he hears my song or not.

Now when it is said that the dharmat? or ultimate nature is not an object of knowledge, this means that since the dharmat? transcends all conceptual constructs, it is not conceivable.

But what is the point of tiring oneself over words that are being used from two quite different points of view? One should instead rely on the meaning intended.

if you have never trodden the path of love, go away and fall in love; then come back and see us.

I let the sun hit me. The sun's some kind of gift. Another day we're all alive. I wish she could understand. I'm just happy to be alive.

Worst parent on the planet. All he knew how to do was bark orders and walk away. He didn't understand that his daughter was smarter than that, that she wasn't a dog.

I don't know how to make you happy without making me unhappy.

And that was the day she invented it, this particular glazed expression of hers. She had created it to please her father, but it had served her well in her life. When she wore it, most men thought she was listening to them, and most women knew that the conversation was over.

But why should I care what he's doing if I'm crazy about you?' 'We are allowed to have more than one feeling at once,' said Kenneth. 'We are human beings, not ants.

He respected a person's right to weakness.

Alex was delighted and astonished with her mother for behaving as a mother should for once.

I always reel for a few days after I witness someone's personal truth. I walk around feeling like I'm wearing their essence like a tight sweater.

I kiss him and he kisses me and we laugh and we are close and I believe so deeply in that moment that I can tolerate his bullshit.

I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.

Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens.

Den, som tror på mig, han skal også gøre de gerninger, jeg gør, ja, han skal gøre endnu større gerninger, thi jeg går til Faderen.' (Joh. 14:12). I årevis plagede dette mig, ikke fordi jeg ikke troede på det, men fordi jeg ikke så det i praksis. Hvordan kunne jeg gøre 'større gerninger' end Jesus? Men i dag forstår jeg, at Jesus ikke hentydede til gerninger, som var større i art, men i omfang.

One did not visit another person's home lightly. Such a visit invariably expanded the dimensions of a relationship. p 86