Quotes About Understanding

All my life I have been surrounded by things I'd rather not know too much about, so I have come to feel that truth made naked without purpose is really a wanton.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

I have a very deep and wide relationship with my fans.

It's hard to be prejudiced against someone you love.

In learning about a person, you learn something about the world and about yourself, and if you can handle what you learn, you can get closer, much closer to them.

Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us

To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man. If the late President Kennedy could get together with Khrushchev and exchange some wheat, we certainly have more in common with each other than Kennedy and Khrushchev had with each other.

If we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

To leap over the wall of self, to look through another's eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers.

Feliz aquel que encuentre un amigo cuyo corazón y mente lo comprendan!, ¡un amigo que se una a él por una comunión de gustos, sentimientos y convicciones!, ¡un amigo sin el tormento de la ambición o el interés, que prefiera la sombra de un árbol a las pompas de una corte! ¡feliz el que posee un amigo!

el mexicano es por naturaleza silencioso…Si no sabe hablar muy bien, sabe en cambio, callar de manera excelente

Women will cut men a lot of slack for sins made in the name of their beauty.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

Truly, men often fail to understand their own weaknesses," I said neutrally, "and their lack of self-knowledge can bring terrible disasters down on their own heads.

The man who doesn't know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

bu wen bu rou wen zi, wen zi bu ruo jian zhi. jian zhi bu ruo zhi zi, zhi zi bu ruo xing zi. Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. But involve me, I will understand. XUN ZI (PHILOSOPHER, WARRING STATES PERIOD, 475–221 BC)

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.