Quotes About Understanding

Kwaak! - Mimi

In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly. Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault. And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it.

Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.

Cadvan smiled. "We are all many," he said. "But most of us don't have the privilege of understanding that as clearly as you do. It is hard to know oneself, but until we do, we cannot know why we act as we do. It's a lifetime's quest, and it never ends.

The most wise are those who know how little they know!" They

There is no shame in not knowing something," he said gently. "The shame is in not being willing to learn

Friends can only do their best. -Pip

I don't know everything. No one does, and only the foolish seek to.

I don't deserve that,' said Cadvan. 'Love isn't about deserving. It just is.

Knowledge breeds confidence.

He told me to tell him all the songs that make me cry. He wanted to know my favorite books, favorite movies, if my heart was ever broken and by whom . . . He said, 'I want to know everything that makes you you.

My whole life, my mother was the only person I felt comfortable talking to—even after she got sick." "Why is that?" "I think," Sarah said, "that she's just a good listener." Brenna looked at her. "Everybody needs that one person, you know? The one person they can talk to." Brenna

Am I that hard to understand? Or is it just that they don't want to understand me, people like Glynne Barrett, who curate their wardrobes and fuss over websites and run from anything raw and unplanned, as though my type of pain were catching?

There are moments in my life—just a few of them—when the present and the future seem to bleed into each other and I see everything from the strangest perspective, understanding before I even know what's happening that from here on in, nothing will be the same.

if I didn't ask questions, the truth would still be the truth.

Grounded her for two months. Her dad thought it excessive. We smoked pot when we were that age, Matt said, missing the point. Yes, we smoked pot when we were fourteen, but Emily wasn't us. She was better than us.

No one can ever truly know what is in another man's heart.

But there is a chasm between what is known and what is said.

Knowledge, after all, could not be unlearned.

Know your enemy," I murmured.

He gave her his half-smile and the sad curve of it pierced her heart.

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.