Quotes About Understanding

Hearts of people are like wild beasts. They attach themselves to those who love and train them.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

An ignorant person will always overdo a thing or neglect it totally.

Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue).

Debating an ignorant tires me.

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

She remarks, in particular, how white people simply fail to understand how they might be complicit, unwittingly, in shoring up structures of white dominance.

Epigenetics is a discipline that relies more on speculation than genuine scientific understanding. Nevertheless, scholars of race and racism would do well to keep a wary eye on epigenetic research, as this is an avenue whereby many researchers will attempt to resurrect the biological concept of race. Defining 'race': is there a consensus that race is a social construct?

Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreement between friends. Other than these, we go out anonymous into the insect air and all we are is the dust of colour, brief engineerings of wings towards a glint of light on a blade of grass or a leaf in a summer dark.

always looking off to the side. But that's good too. It's good, to be seen past, as if you're not the only one, as if everything isn't happening just to you. Because you're not. And it isn't.

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

And which comes first? her unbearable mother is saying. What we see or how we see it?

We have to hope that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

A man interested in the meaning of words, not one whose interests leave words meaningless.

She had entered him like he was water. Like he was a dictionary and she was a word he hadn't known was in him. Or she had entered him more simply, like he was a door and she opened him, leaving him standing ajar as she walked straight in.

because looking is just the start of understanding, just its surface, the top layer of any understanding, the girl is saying

Sometimes, he says, we don't know why people do what they do. But we can only do our best, the best we can do, in response, and try to be as good-humoured as possible while we do it.

The third person is another pair of eyes. The third person is a presentiment of God. ...... a way to tell the story. It's a box for the endless music that's there between people, waiting to be played.

See how it's deep in our animal nature, Daniel said. Not to see what's happening right in front of our eyes.

where would we be without our ability to see beyond what it is we're supposed to be seeing.