Quotes About Understanding

I do remember,' explained Christopher Robin, 'only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and not just a remembering.

He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it.

His idea of seeing the world was to see, not countries, but people; and to see them from as many angles as possible.

Mark sighed to himself as he walked home. The afternoon was unexpectedly warm, the sky deep blue and cloudless. You figure her out, he told himself. You're the expert. Mark Carney, girl expert. Everyone should ask me for advice. I know everything about girls, except how to get along with them, how to get along without them, and how to understand them. And I can't even worry about Marcy right now because I've got a date with Janine.

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Said Mr RothSchild, hell knows which Roth-schild 1861, '64 or there sometime, 'Very few people 'will understand this. Those who do will be occupied 'getting profits. The general public will probably not 'see it's against their interest.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.

When I watch a fight, I like to study one boxer's problem, solve it, and then communicate my solution vocally.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

I could no more appreciate your unparalleled coffee nectar than I could understand the genius of whatever art-house auteur director you currently love or whatever obscure musical group you and exactly four of your friends listen to. I will never be cool like you. I will never understand the secret beauty of this world the way you do. So, give me a cider and your pity and/or contempt, and we can both get on with our lives.

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

No humbling of reality to precept.

the sunlight has neverheard of trees

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one'. We forget that we have still to make a study of 'and'.

Cinta pertama itu tetap unggul, mencakar-cakar kerinduan dan kenangan, menyembunyi dan merahsiakan sebahagian keanehannya, dan akhirnya menjadi sukar dimengerti, apalagi disambung. m/s 144

Max said little. His essential quality was always to say little, but by powerful empathy for writers and for books to draw out of them what they had it in them to say and to write.

Before Perkins nobody at Scribners had edited so boldly or closely as he did Fitzgerald, and some of the older editors considered the practice questionable. They liked Max and sensed his ability, but they did not always understand him. In small ways as well as large, Max was different.

The true basis for friendships is a prejudice or two in common," Max liked to say.

Peter exercised a zeal which was unregulated by knowledge

It's all too easy to sneer at war tourism. Appending the word 'tourism' to any activity diminishes it, makes it ersatz, collective, prearranged. But the desire to make travelling more than a purely hedonistic or childish experience in search of warmth and food is a good thing, and the desire to understand the struggles of nations and the deaths of youths on their behalf must be important.