Quotes About Understanding

A language is a map of our failures

The possibilities that exist between two people, or among a group of people, are a kind of alchemy. They are the most interesting thing in life. The liar is someone who keeps losing sight of these possibilities

You grieve in loneliness, and if I understand you fuck in loneliness.

why should the wild child weep for the scientists why

to understand is always an ascending movement; that is why comprehension ought always to be concrete. (one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.) —Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks

And I won't tell you where it is, so why do I tell you anything? Because you still listen, because in times like these to have you listen at all, it's necessary to talk about trees.

What happens between us has happened for centuries we know it from literature still it happens

because in times like these to have you listen at all, it's necessary to talk about trees.

Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.

I can appreciate anybody's passion for anything.

I can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

I am passionately devoted to the study of life, and particularly to the higher forms of life.

In my day-to-day life, I did learn to be passionately curious from my dad and always search and have a hunger for knowledge and want to understand why things work the way they do.

Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason.

People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.

We always talk about how, obviously, there is still very in-your-face aggressive racism. But there's a lot of passive racism that, in the moment, you don't even realize is racist. You chalk it up as a strange interaction you had, and then you look at the context of it later on and realize the root of it was racism.

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.

I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn't disrespect my past.