Quotes About Understanding

But Julia hasn't a bit of tact; and men, I find, require a great deal. They purr if you rub them the right way and spit if you don't. (That isn't a very elegant metaphor. I mean it figuratively.)

I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language. It's a miserable feeling. I've had it all my life. At the high school the girls would stand in groups and just look at me. I was queer and different and everybody knew it.

We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.

Les lettres que l'amour trace en nous ne sont jamais plus faciles à déchiffrer que sur la page blanche d'un esprit non préparé.

Cet échange d'inconnu à inconnu se révélait infiniment plus riche que l'habituel commerce entre gens qui savaient déjà tout les uns des autres.

A la fin du dîner, elle l'avait si religieusement écouté qu'il la trouvait intelligente.

But if neither sadness or rage could unite us, I didn't know what could - the more I wanted to identify with her, the more I identified with myself; and the more I tried to understand her, the less, necessarily, I succeeded: the failure of an intelligent mind to grasp feeblemindedness was dark and deep, no less than the failure of a feeble mind to grasp intelligence, because intelligence got its shape by not understanding the thing it could never be.

The news took a moment to sink in, probably because there was no bottom for it to alight upon.

Books knew more than you did, as a rule.

N'ayons pas peur des mots. Ils n'ont pas peur de nous.

A È™ti anumite lucruri pe de rost îÈ›i confer? capacitatea unei înÈ›elegeri superioare.

CunoÈ™tinÈ›ele sunt cele care se adun? în capul nostru f?r? s? ne fie întotdeauna de vreun folos. CunoaÈ™terea e transformarea unor cunoÈ™tinÈ›e într-o experien?? de via??.

Riding is the step-by-step seduction of the horse.

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She was no sworn wife, but Robin was the only man she ever loved as a husband... though not as much as her crown and thrown. The truth that tore at her breast, turning her about in circles, because he had known... he had known his love was greater than hers. Though it was not, she never could explain it rightly. No man understood, that he was not everything to the woman he loved.

I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

What matters in learning is not to be taught, but to wake up.

Science too proceeds by lantern-flashes; it explores nature's inexhaustible mosiac piece by piece. Too often the wick lacks oil; the glass panes of the lantern may not be clean. No matter : his work is not in vain who first recognizes and shows to others one speck of the vast unknown.

Let us see but a little at a time and see that little plainly; that is the way to acquire substantial and lasting knowledge.

If you are silent, if I never learn one fraction more of your soul's equation/I know you.

Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.

I think we need to have a little talk, woman to skank.