Quotes About Understanding

one teenage girl who, during a lucid dream, "entered the body" of a boy whose attention she had been soliciting in vain. Once inside her love object's "body," she began to see things from his point of view. "I understood why he had been so reserved with me," she reported, "and I realized that he would never return my feelings." As a result, the girl was able to end a fruitless and disheartening infatuation.

Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as well as ensuring its uniqueness.

Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it

For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.

Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Tenderness is not like money: the more you give to one, the more you have for others.

I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza.

I know that bein a idiot an all, I ain't sposed to have no philosophy of my own, but maybe it's just because nobody never took the time to talk to me bout it.

Mo?e jestem idiota, ale nie jestem g?upi.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

I'll never find out now What A. thought of me. If B. ever forgave me in the end. Why C. pretended everything was fine. What part D. played in E.'s silence. What F. had been expecting, if anything. Why G. forgot when she knew perfectly well. What H. had to hide. What I. wanted to add. If my being around meant anything to J. and K. and the rest of the alphabet.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Do not simply know God according to what He does, but know Him according to what He is. Whether or not God does something for us means nothing.

Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.

Rzecz prosta, im m?drzejszy czytelnik, tym i ksi??ka oka?e si? m?drzejsza; im za? czytelnik g?upszy i bardziej ja?owy, tym i ksi??ka b?dzie g?upsza.

You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!

A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.

Allein schon der Begriff "Toleranz" setzt voraus, dass man von Zuruckgebliebenen umgeben ist, die man tolerieren muss, als waere man selbst der Traeger einer hoeheren, ueberlegenen Kultur, die sich selbst nie hinterfragt.

Dieses Lächeln sympathisierte in einer Weise mit mir, dass ich nicht anders konnte, als mit diesem Lächeln zu sympathisieren. Aber Sympathisieren wäre vielleicht noch in Ordnung gewesen. Mein Leben wäre normal weitergegangen, wenn ich nur sympathisiert hätte. Wenn ich mich nicht augenblicklich um den Verstand verliebt hätte.