Quotes About Understanding

It is very annoying, when people notice your weak moments but never see your strong ones.

Least said, soonest mended," Toby quipped, quoting a saying Jess often used.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

As Creb looked at the peaceful, trusting face of the strange girl in his lap, he felt a deep love flowering in his soul for her. He couldn't have loved her more if she were his own.

Wanting to feel safe all of the time can also lead to wanting to protect against emotional upset—the concern with "emotional safety" somewhat unique to iGen. That can include preventing bad experiences, sidestepping situations that might be uncomfortable, and avoiding people with ideas different from your own. That's where things get dicey—both for iGen and for the older generations struggling to understand them.

In the next decade we may see more young people who know just the right emoji for a situation—but not the right facial expression.

Truth is everywhere, and easily seen. Believing one's eyes Is the difficulty.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

If only we could know what was going on in a baby's mind while observing him in action we could certainly understand everything there is to psychology.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

theory or have remained unaffected by them. It is true that a fact can sometimes appear to resemble an "accident," as in the case of the apple that fell near Newton, but the accident only became a "fact" because Newton asked certain questions.

Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Plus l'offenseur m'est cher, plus je ressens l'injure.

Now, it's a known fact that racism comes in two forms: that practiced by whites— heinous and inexcusable, whatever its motives—and that practiced by blacks—quite justified, whatever its excesses, since it's merely the expression of a righteous revenge, and it's up to the whites to be patient and understanding.

Everybody has his reasons.

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.

The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons.

You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.