Quotes About Understanding

Teach me to speak the language of men.

The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes - no one living knows more of mine than I.

P43- that the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question.

But it was ever thus. That which has never come within the scope of our really pitifully meager world-experience cannot be—our

There was no need for words—at least none that I could imagine, unless Perry desired to pray. And I was quite sure that he would

That which has never come within the scope of our really pitifully meager world-experience cannot be—our finite minds cannot grasp that which may not exist in accordance with the conditions which obtain about us upon the outside of the insignificant grain of dust which wends its tiny way among the bowlders of the universe—the speck of moist dirt we so proudly call the World.

Likewise, under Sola's tutelage, I developed my telepathic powers so that I shortly could sense practically everything that went on around me.

Breadth of mind not infrequently accompanies limitation of knowledge.

A todos ellos les faltaba aprender que pocas cosas merecen tanto respeto como la felicidad ajena.

Guys who grow up with sisters are trained better

been extolling for the last twenty minutes, then fixed me with a polite stare. "Is something wrong?" I opened my mouth

don't understand why you would want

Saint Paul said the invisible must be understood by the visible. That was not a Hebrew idea, it was Greek.

It's true we might not have met if I'd not been thrown literally at her feet, but we've more in common than my isolation. There is a certain fellow feeling too, our minds dovetail in matters of humor and taste.

for no border severs man from man, or one manner of living totally from another.

All those who seek truth, seek God, whether this is clear to them or not.

He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and--unnecessary.

The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call 'experience.' But by the time we've got that we're no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay.

We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

I had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps.

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

And for a long while they stood side by side without speaking, each seeing the other in every line of the landscape.