Quotes About Understanding

Das Nicht-Wissen darf am Wissen nicht verarmen.

Del azar de lo leído depende lo que eres

Ahlak?n bahts?zl??? : her ÅŸeyi daha iyi bilmesi ve bu yüzden de hiçbir ÅŸey öÄŸrenememesi.

One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.

Any life is laughable if one knows it well enough. It is something serious and terrible if one knows it even better.

She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.

I thought, If only the whole nation of Israel—and the whole world—could understand that Jews and Palestinians can get along when they begin to treat each other with dignity.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

Peace is our gift to each other.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one.

Those who know don't talk and those who talk don't know.

True enemies aren't always the ones who hate each other.

Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

A mn ages hs enemy because he hates his own hate. He says to himself: I hate him not because he's my enemy, not because he hates me, but because he arouses me to hate.

In an inn somewhere, a wealthy guest mistakes [Rebbe Zusia] for a beggar and treats him accordingly. Later he learns his identity and comes to cry his remorse: Forgive me, Rebbe, you must - for I didn't know! Why do you ask Zusia to forgive you? Rebbe Zusia said, shaking his head and smiling. You haven't done anything bad to him; it is not Zusia you insulted but a poor beggar, so go and ask the beggars, everywhere, to forgive you!

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one. Involuntarily

The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day." He