Quotes About Understanding

Hi," she said, in a whispery voice, and nodded as if to confirm that she really meant it.

While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.

Let me tell you what the problem is, Brik. Even if you knew what you want to know, you would still know nothing. You ask questions, you want to know more, but no matter how much more I tell you, you will never know anything. That's the problem.

Only once did she say: "I love the way you think without thinking

If Joshua had to put one sticker on his car (which he didn't have) it would be: Whatever is, is either in itself or in the other. Who on the street would ever understand what that meant?

You can experience and understand history only when you're inside it, but when you're inside it you don't have time or gumption for understanding. All you want is just to stay alive, for which understanding is not necessary. You have no access to history's complex, catastrophic logic, which is indelibly overwhelming and incomprehensible, particularly as you're trying to survive.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Kuka käsittää tämän maailman rakennusta? Ei ihmislapsi, joka on typerä ja tyhmä kuin määkivä jäärä. Mutta parasta ottaa päivä tultuansa, sallia sen mennä mentyänsä, käyköön sitten puuhun tai mäntyyn. Täällä ollaan vaan.

it is not enough that we know how things really stand; in a certain sense, things themselves have to realize how they stand.

Il soggiorno veronese è davvero il primo momento in cui Dante dovette rendersi conto di ...come sa di sale lo pane altrui, e come è duro calle lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale.

Si potrebbe però, tanto nelle cose piccole, come nelle grandi, evitare, in gran parte, quel corso così lungo e così storto, prendendo il metodo proposto da tanto tempo, d'osservare, ascoltare, paragonare, pensare, prima di parlare. Ma parlare, questa cosa così sola, è talmente più facile di tutte quell'altre insieme, che anche noi, dico noi uomini in generale, siamo un po' da compatire.

Para hacer el bien, hay que conocerlo; y al igual que cualquier otra cosa, no podemos conocerlo sino en medio de nuestras pasiones, mediante nuestros juicios, con nuestras ideas; las cuales muy a menudo dejan bastante que desear.

La storia è costretta a indovinare. Fortuna che c'è avvezza.

Ma sarebbe ridicolo il dimostrar che uomini potevano veder cose che l'uomo non può non vedere: può bensì non volerci badare.

Most of this long and twisted course could have been avoided, however, in both lesser and greater affairs, if the tried and true methods of observing, listening, comparing, and thinking before speaking had been adopted. But speech, by itself, is so much easier than all the rest put together that we, too—by which I mean we humans in general—deserve a measure of indulgence. Skip

Alzandosi tutti, vedevano né più né meno che se fossero stati tutti con le piante in terra; ma tant'è, tutti s'alzavano.

Sometimes, however, a man can grasp this without being a great metaphysician, when he is still fresh to the problem; and it is only by discussing it, and hearing it discussed, that he becomes incapable of understanding it.

An inter/view is an exchange of gazes, persons both seeing and listening to each other.

The root meaning of the word dialogue is "to speak across," "to speak beyond." This suggests that the crucial element is space, both social and geo- graphic: the distance, the difference, the otherness between the two partners involved

it is important that we enter the interview with a great degree of flexibility, ready not only to accept the narrator's agenda but also to modify our own.

The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.

Even the harmful and awkward and stupid things?" asked Sunday. "There are reasons for those?" "Especially those." said Joy.

Master Steve. "Hmm…

Samintar." Everyone