Quotes About Understanding

The child who lives with autism may look "normal," but his behavior can be perplexing and downright unruly.

It demands that we give voice to their thoughts and feelings, even when their voices are nonverbal.

In a widely read New York Times article in December 2004, Jack Thomas, a tenth grader with Asperger's syndrome, got the world's attention by stating, "We don't have a disease, so we can't be cured. This is just the way we are.

For teaching to be effective, you must be heard, and many children with autism hear better with a picture.

But you can't stop knowing something, can you?

When the words dance privately for you, it is possible to feel not alone.

I had thought that I knew her affliction and not merely the fact of it. It was no stranger to me. I understood it emotionally, empathetically. But I had only ever touched down at its airport. She was a citizen of its vast interior.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit or robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern all. But

Beware how you pass judgment on your superiors," he said mildly, "at least until you know how to put yourself in their place and see from their view.

You have not lived here among us. She did. You are English, she was Welsh, she knew us, and was never so moved against us that she withdrew or complained. We know she is there, no need to exclaim or make any great outcry. If we have needs, she knows it, and never asks that we should come with prayers and tears, knocking our knees on the ground before her. If she grudged a few brambles and weeds, she would have found a means to tell us. Us, not some distant Benedictine house in England!

She was not the audience to which he played, but she was the profound intelligence that heard him. She drew him in with her great bruised eyes, and his music she drank, and it was wine to her thirst.

Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit or robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern all.

One way to be sure of saying nothing that can be taken amiss is to say nothing at all.

Correction without connection yields rejection.

Wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts. 1 Corinthians 4:5

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be identical with themselves, the old dictum that everything is identical with itself becomes in [todays understanding of the universe] a principle invariably false to facts.

the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero