Quotes About Understanding

You don't know anything until you know Everything.

Only if we can develop a broadly shared understanding of our common history will it be practical to consider steps we could take to fulfill our obligations.

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.

As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence, always incomplete, and correctly intuit the whole, to see the world in a grain of sand, to recognize its beauty, its simplicity, its truth. It's as close as we get to God in this life, and reside in the glow of such brief flashes of understanding, fully awake, sometimes for two or three seconds, at peace with our existence. And then back to sleep we go.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

In the end it all came down to companionship, to friendship, to sacrifice, to compromise.

I've always known that there's more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn't regret that he isn't more fully understood?

Ted Valentine got up from his chair and walked over to me. He stuck out his hand and said, "I'm horribly sorry.

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand. It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.

People educate each other through the mediation of the world.

other people. At about seven minutes past

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

Some think it strength of grace to endure nothing in the weaker, whereas the strongest are readiest to bear with the infirmities of the weak.

What can you know about a person? They shift in the light. You can't light up all sides at once. Add a second light and you get a second darkness, it's only fair.

Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other.

Someone once told me that explaining is an admission of failure. I'm sure you remember, I was on the phone with you, sweetheart.

Bird 1: This is the wrong story. Bird 2: All stories are the wrong story when you are impatient.

Verse. Chorus. Verse. I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.

What can you know about a person? They shift in the light. You can't light up all sides at once.

Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?

I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.