Quotes About Understanding

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

Faith is not to be contrasted with knowledge: faith (at least in paradigmatic instances) is knowledge, knowledge of a certain special kind.

Is it a fact that those who believe in a Heavenly Father do so because or partly because their earthly fathers were inadequate? I doubt it. If it is a fact, however, it is of psychological rather than theological interest. It may help us understand theists, but it tells us nothing at all about the truth of their belief; to that it is simply irrelevant.

Now Kant is by no means easy to understand, which is no doubt part of his charm. If you want to be a really great philosopher, make sure not to say too clearly what you have in mind (well, maybe that's not quite enough, but it's a good start);

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study." - Chinese proverb

Grief, she learned, had many faces and all of them hurt.

Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.

You never know what you have till you've lost it.

He pulls me into his arms, his touch calm and soothing, but unable to erase the truth. "I have to go," he finally whispers. "But Ever, if you want to love me, if you truly want to be with me, then you'll have to accept what we are. I'll understand if you can't.

Trust me, you can't play the game if you don't know the rules. And if you don't know the rules, someone's bound to get hurt.

Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of goofing off. Because if not, how boring would that be?

Deep down inside, my heart knew the score. And I know that Haven was wrong. It's not always a case of one loving more than the other. When two people are truly meant to be, they love equally. Differently - but still equal.

The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes

Non, je ne regrette rien. Because you just can't regret the things you learn from.

Exactly, he confirmed, adding a to go along with it—a telepathic emoticon that made me smile too.

He rambled. Oh boy, did he ramble. He rambled in a way that was nothing but a bunch of bippidy blah blah to my ears. Rambled in a way that made my head go all dizzy and squeezy.

But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy. The air between our resting bodies, and the breath in between our conversations, were all like the white of the canvas, and the rest our relationship—the laughter and the memories—were the brushstrokes applied over time.

Love is a verb. Acting lovingly is the way to heal and rebuild. It also means working to meet our children in their world, instead of demanding they join ours.

It took a rare person to appreciate a good Elmer Fudd line.

The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so on, were texts into which others were free to enter, or not. Letters, on the other hand, did not exist without the other person, and their very mission, their significance, was the epiphany of the recipient.

In fond, oamenii nu citesc; daca citesc, nu pricep; daca pricep, uita.

L'amour n'est pas la spécialité des humains.

No sabemos nada de nosotros mismos