Quotes About Understanding

What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear? Words of comfort.

Forgive me," she says now. "For what?" "For everything. Sometimes we can wound each other in ways we don't intend.

you forgave me long ago. Why would I not do the same? So, whatever it is, I forgive you." She rises, touches his cheek, kisses him on his forehead

But I learned that ignorance is never revealed if one holds one's tongue. To speak is what removes all doubts.

question," not push for the answer.

Abraham Verghese

He alone amongst all the people she knows uses his two ears and one mouth in that exact proportion. She loves him in a way she

there was never anything healing one could say. One could only be. The best friends in such times were those who had no agenda other than to be present, to offer themselves

Listening is talking for him; there's an eloquence to this kind of attentiveness; it's rare, and yet he's generous with it. He alone amongst all the people she knows uses his two ears and one mouth in that exact proportion.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

But two facts are clear: it is impossible to understand the Cuban Revolution without understanding Miami, and it is impossible to understand Miami without understanding the Cuban Revolution.

I know you don't always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can't help it. I will never get over making everything such a big deal.

My mother's psychic says, everyone essentially wants the same thing as everyone else, a sense of belonging, a coming home.

I once had a record of whale sounds, I swear I understood.

Does poetry have its issues? One hundred percent. Does poetry have its limitations? One hundred percent. It's not going to cure disease or feed the hungry, but it might help us to understand someone else's experience just a little bit better. Or maybe it'll make us mad and then we'll have to interrogate why we're mad, or implicated, or why we feel left out. Like many of the arts, poetry can be the way of recognizing our own beauty and our own flaws.

What is it to go to a We from an I ?

Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it - and we only need to give it some proper thought to see that what God gives is just sheer happiness; the suffering is what we add to it.

Vernadsky proposed that the study of the Earth would not be complete without understanding the central role of life as a planetary force.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

we swim in our second language, we breathe in our first

Argue like you're right and listen like you're wrong. ?