Quotes About Understanding

We cannot hope to understand the world—all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation.

Might there come a time when people of different faiths did not kill one another?

He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted angrily, instead of seeing the weakness and giving reassurance

Se avesse raccontato a qualcuno quei dialoghi, avrebbero detto che comunicava con un fantasma e allora sarebbero accorsi i preti con l'acqua santa e gli esorcismi: ma lui sapeva che non c'era niente di soprannaturale in quello che succedeva. Semplicemente, la conosceva così bene da poter immaginare che cosa avrebbe pensato e detto in ogni circostanza.

The fact that someone was capable of learning to read and write did not, unfortunately, make him intelligent.

N-are niciun rost s? pricepi ce este greÈ™it, îÈ™i spuse ea, dac? nu iei nicio m?sur?.

Como siempre, su madre había adivinado lo que en realidad sentía.

She had always had this ability to make him revise his attitudes, he recalled. It was an uncomfortable process, but she was often right.

What don't I know?

In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum." In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Aldred felt he could spend his life trying to comprehend that mystery.

Na verdade, tinha a impressão de que possuía mais informação e compreendia menos as coisas.

Before you try to take a speck out of your brother's eye, make sure you don't have a big piece of wood in your own eye, obstructing your vision, Jesus suggested.

The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent – but a president should have it.

Until you had a child, you did not understand how much they had to learn.

La capacidad de escuchar a gente inteligente que no está de acuerdo contigo es un talento difícil de encontrar…

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon have going.

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see...

I can see the…seams where they're put together. And, almost, see the apparatus inside them take the words I just said and try to fit the words in here and there, this place and that, and when they find the words don't have any place ready-made where they'll fit, the machinery disposes of the words like they weren't even spoken.

You must go through a winter to understand.

Nobody complains about all the fog. I know why, now: as bad as it is, you can slip back in it and feel safe. That's what McMurphy can't understand, us wanting to be safe. He keeps trying to drag us out of the fog, out in the open where we'd be easy to get at.

sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.

I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....