Quotes About Understanding

She's read every word I've written," he said. "That's the truest way to know someone's heart.

Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

I know there are a number of things you know, probably too many things you know--too many, I say, not because any kind of knowledge has the capacity to be bad in itself, but rather because certain kinds of knowledge, particularly those kinds we often describe as arcane, can, by way of their very arcanity, serve to obscure the knowledge-bearer's understanding of the mundane.

The million different answers to 'Why not let it go?' have just as many good ones among them as the million you can get from 'Why should I let it go?

Then again, you only live a few times, so why not be happy? Why be hard on yourself? Why be hard on yourself for who you had been in a previous life? Why be hard on yourself for who you had been before you'd understood the laws? Especially when you couldn't—if you were being honest with yourself—you couldn't really be sure you understood the laws now? Like maybe the laws weren't even

The goodness of our intentions was in direct correlation to the heights from which we condescended to each other.

There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.

I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.

Miej serce i patrzaj w serce!

Czucie i wiara silniej mówi do mnie Ni? m?drca szkie?ko i oko.

Most people ignore most poetry because Most poetry ignores most people.

genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood

Look at a wild creature- even hold it in your hand- and it is obvious that you don't 'have' it. You hold it but everything it is stretches far beyond your enclosing fingers, in time and space and through its own interior existence. You may posess it, even for a moment, but it is not yours... Whatever it is to be known remains outside the grip of our knowing it.

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

Unkindness involves a failure of the imagination so acute that it threatens not just our happiness but our sanity. Caring

We need, in other words, to know something about what we don't get, and about the importance of not getting it.

Before you have children, the novelist Fay Weldon once said, you can believe you are a nice person: after you have children you understand how wars start.

We don't have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be.

Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once.

We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.

To say a word once is communicative, to say it twice is emphatic, but to say it twenty times turns it into a trippy floating nothing.

Talk is what we have, what makes us distinctive. Talk to us is what webs are to a spider, or speed to a gazelle.' 'Talk is how we bring what's inside our minds into the outside world,' Albie said. 'Animals have feelings and thoughts. Animals have always had feelings and thoughts – it's just that only now have they been able to bring them out.