Quotes About Understanding

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Die Liebe stirbt meistens and den kleinen Fehlern, die man am Anfang so entzückend findet.

Jusqu'à ce qu'il étende le cercle de sa compassion à toutes les créatures vivantes, l'homme lui-même ne trouvera pas la paix.

passes he stands for a moment close to us, as though illumined by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is. After

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other's faces, or to intrude into each other's hearts

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

We have to have that education. We have to have it. We have to master the western culture. We have to master the English language. It's the only way we can strengthen and fortify our own way of life. We have to know who we are working with and how to work with them.

His bread incident was just like my own story of getting run over. I didn't get hurt, exactly, though I did get to see the underside of something I thought I knew but I didn't. My father and I, in our turn, got to see something new in the middle of what was absolutely familiar, which is the hardest place to see it. Neither of us ever forgot.

It's stranger than every strangeness And the dreams of all the poets And the thoughts of all the philosophers, That things are really what they seem to be And there's nothing to understand.

I'm glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I've read.

I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing, And I look at flowers and I smile... I don't know if they understand me Or if I understand them, But I know the truth is in them and in me And in our common divinity Of letting ourselves go and live on the Earth And carrying us in our arms through the contented Seasons And letting the wind sing us to sleep And not have dreams in our sleep.

the world wasn't made for us to think about it (to think is to have eyes that aren't well) but to look at it and be in agreement.

Pensar é não compreender.

I was born subject like others to errors and defects, But never to the error of wanting to understand too much, Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect.. Never to the defect of demanding of the World That it be anything that's not the World.

Estaba condenado con la maldición del que sabe dos idiomas y entiende, secretamente, que no domina del todo ninguno de los dos. Ahora era capaz de comparar; todo se me multiplicaba por dos. En cada sitio terminaba optando por el punto de vista ajeno. Ahora veo todo, esté donde esté, como un extranjero.

Creer que porque uno sintió algo, ese algo de alguna manera logró colarse y depositarse en el sistema digestivo del otro.

Es bueno defender las cosas que se sienten, pero para hay que sentirlas y para eso hace falta algo más.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

Ne možeš dati sud o onome koga voliš.

Things that are understood are not scandalized. Shock - scandal is basically fear. The scandal is, after all, the fear of losing one's personality. In short, the shocked person is uncertain, hence a conformist.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

the mystery of all things, from the greatest to the least: everything can be explained, except their existence.