Quotes About Understanding

Lejos un trino. El ruiseñor no sabe que te consuela.

You are the only music my life has understood.

Todo lenguaje es un alfabeto de símbolos cuyo ejercicio presupone un pasado que los interlocutores comparten.

Há uma hora da tarde em que a planície está a ponto de dizer alguma coisa; nunca o diz ou talvez o diga infinitamente e não entendemos, ou entendemos mas é intraduzível como uma música...

Feliz el que no insiste en tener razón, porque nadie la tiene o todos la tienen.

Todo lenguaje es un alfabeto de símbolos cuyo ejercicio presupone un pasado que los interlocutores comparten; ¿cómo transmitir a los otros el infinito Aleph, que mi temerosa memoria apenas abarca?

Tú, que me lees, ¿estás seguro de entender mi lenguaje?

Pensar es olvidar diferencias, es generalizar, abstraer.

Había aprendido sin esfuerzo el inglés, el francés, el portugués, el latín. Sospecho, sin embargo, que no era muy capaz de pensar. Pensar es olvidar diferencias, es generalizar, abstraer. En el abarrotado mundo de Funes no había sino detalles, casi inmediatos

Pensar é esquecer diferenças, é generalizar, abstrair.

Orice destin, oricât de lung sau de complicat ar fi, se reduce de fapt la un unic moment: momentul în care omul înÈ›elege pentru totdeauna cine este.

Get hold of a copy of Heine's Buck der Lieder—that should be easily done—get hold of a German-English dictionary, and then begin to read. You may be puzzled at first, but after two or three months you will find yourself reading the finest poetry in the world and perhaps not understanding it but feeling it, which is far better, since poetry is not meant for reason but for the imagination.

În chip nedesluÈ™it, a intuit c? trecutul e substanÈ›a din care e alc?tuit timpul; de aceea timpul se preschimb? numaidecât în trecut.

Y de pronto llegará alguien que baile contigo, aunque no le guste bailar y lo haga porque es contigo y nada más.

O joy of understanding, greater than the joy of imagination, greater than the joy of feeling!

In copilarie acceptam aceste uratenii asa cum accepti toate lucrurile incompatibile pe care numai din pricina coexistentei lor raspund la numele de univers.

Nu conteaza sa citesti, ci sa recitesti.

For love unsatisfied the world is a mystery, a mystery which satisfied love appears to understand.

T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]

If you can bring dissent and disagreement to a common understanding of what the decision is all about, you create unity in action, and in all things trust. And trust requires that dissent come out into the open, and that it be seen as disagreement.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

Would not the characters of her many novels be the search, if not the expression, of her many selves? Add the thousands of letters sent, as if cast upon the sea in so many bottles, in the search for understanding, for love... (...)

We are the people birthed from this land. For the first time I can seem something I've not fully understood before, not until now as these pale creatures from somewhere far away stare down at us in wonder, trying to makes sense of what they see. We are this place. This place is us.

We all fight our own wars, wars for which we'll be judged. Some of them we fight in the forests close to home, others in distant jungles or faraway burning deserts. We all fight our own wars, so maybe it's best not to judge, considering it's rare we even know why we fight so savagely.