Quotes About Understanding

I'm not sure what readers want.

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things

We don't know others. They are an enigma. We can't know them, especially those we are most intimate with, because habit blurs us and hope blinds us to the truth.

We don't know others. They are an enigma. We can't know them, especially those we are most intimate with, because habit blurs us and hope blinds us with truth.

He never studied, not a paper, not a textbook . . . the books he reads are the people that come to him

Only fools think that men and women love differently. Fools and pedagogues. I tell you, the love of men for women is just as heartbreaking, just as muddled, just as bewildering, and in the end, just as unfinished.

Oh Father, oh Mother, forgive us, for we know not what we do.

is the unseen guest at every table, the silent listener to every conversation"—her mother thereby inferring that she too would be the unseen guest and the silent listener to every conversation.

pouring her troubles out in order for her daughter to know the deep things, the wounds she had to bear:

Con la lengua se puede llegar a cualquier parte o a ninguna.

who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension...

Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part.

Ecclesiastes 1:15, "The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.

But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that mom and dad can't. Or won't.

Everything can be simplified. With enough simplification and enough patience on the part of the parent, anything can be simplified to the point that even very young children can begin to understand it.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but the school of genius is solitude.

The philosophers of Greece deduced their morals from the nature of man, rather than from that of God. They meditated, however, on the Divine Nature, as a very curious and important speculation; and in the profound inquiry, they displayed the strength and weakness of the human understanding. [

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.

The historian, like any other scientist, is an animal who incessantly asks the question: Why?

Aprender acerca del presente a la luz del pasado quiere también decir aprender del pasado a la luz del presente. La función de la historia es la de estimular una mas profunda comprensión tanto del pasado como del presente por su comparación recíproca.

the historian's need of imaginative understanding for the minds of the people with whom he is dealing, for the thought behind their acts: I say imaginative understanding, not sympathy, lest sympathy should be supposed to imply agreement ... History cannot be written unless the historian can achieve some kind of contact with the mind of those about whom he is writing.

To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.