Quotes About Understanding

Kim ki bu yaln?zl?k kar??nda büyülenmemiÅŸtir, resmin güzelliÄŸini anlayamaz. Anl?yorum derse, yaland?r.

C'est fort de cÅ"ur ; ça ne crie pas quand tu les tues, ça te fixe dans les yeux, ça te traverse par les yeux avec l'aiguille des yeux.

T'as parlé le berli du berlu à la corbelle du corbeau ?

je savais que je portais le pardon.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

people with different ideas from one's own were not the enemy; they were simply people with different ideas. Hearing them out carried, he supposed, some small potential for having one's mind changed, but it was far more likely to strengthen the opinion you already had, so why all the fear?

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Kierkegaard said that, and Naomi had always admired the eerie perfection of this simple insight.

I'll tell you," says Oliver, "when I know you better.

All ghost stories come to this, she understood. All ghost stories end in one of these two ways: You are dead or I am dead. If people only understood this, Portia thought, they would never be frightened, they would only need to ask themselves, Who among us has died? And then it occurred to her that she was the ghost in her story. She had spent years haunting her own life, without ever noticing.

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

The truth is not believable to someone who has not lived it in his muscles.

Maybe it's true that the people who live through the times that become history's pivotal points are those least likely to understand them.

Maybe it's true that the people who live through the times that become history's pivotal points are those least likely to understand them. I wonder if Abraham Lincoln himself could have answered the inevitable test questions about the causes of the Civil War.

He who ends with the most understanding wins.

Maybe it's true that the people who live through the times that become history's pivotal points are those least likely to understand them. I wonder if Abraham Lincoln himself could have answered the inevitable test questions about the causes of th Civil War.

In the savage horde the most vagabond, as well as in the most civilized nations of Europe, man is only what he is made to be by external circumstances; he is necessarily elevated by his equals; he contracts from them his habits and his wants; his ideas are no longer his own; he enjoys, from the enviable prerogative of his species, a capacity of developing his understanding bu the power of initiation, and the influence of society.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

the real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a 5-year-old.

Sadly, today, instead of having the positive experiences they need for healthy development, many children are having experiences that undermine it. Today's cultural environment bombards children with inappropriate and harmful messages. As children struggle to understand what they see and hear, they learn lessons that can frighten and confuse them.

Meghan and her husband had talked about how they wanted to be open and comfortable with Eva when talking about sex, but they had expected Eva's first questions to be about where babies come from, not this. This was not what they had in mind! Should Meghan actually describe oral sex? What could this possibly mean to a 7-year-old? And how would her explanation affect Eva's understanding about sex and relationships between caring adults, both short and long term?

While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.