Quotes About Understanding

You can be smart and not know much," I said. He nodded and drank some Coke. "Smartest broad I ever fucked," he said. And that in itself must be some kind of fame.

me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Do you have a diagnosis?" "It's what in my profession we call characterological." "Which means you haven't an explanation." "Basically yes," Susan said. "It's simply how you are." "You sure?" "Yes.

When in doubt do something; and hope that if you keep doing it you'll come to understand what it is.

Rita didn't mind. I knew she wouldn't. Hawk fascinated her. Among other things he was male, which gave him a running start

You think I'm deeply disturbed?" Susan said. "Yes," I said. She nodded. "Yes," she said. "I think you're right." Then

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, a wise man tells her that her mouth looks extremely beautiful when her lips are closed.

Once you began speculation about that, once you admited to yourself that you didn't really know how another person's mind operated, then you came up against the ultimate admission—anything was possible.

But who are you to say a person should be put away? I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

It's all right,' he said, wondering at the same time why there were no better words, why there never are any better words to answer fear and grief and loneliness. 'It's all right, believe me.

Funny, Sam told himself, how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

once you admitted to yourself that you didn't really know how another person's mind operated, then you came up against the ultimate admission—anything was possible.

Forty years old, and she called him boy: that's how she treated him, too, which made it worse. If only he didn't have to listen! But he did, he knew he had to, he always had to listen.

This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.

Life with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love, How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us.

Oh the gift that God could give us, to see ourselves as others see us.

to put forth my final words on this subject...there is no dilemma, there is no problem...unless you, the believer...create the problem yourself by adopting a set of beliefs that puts you at odds with the ongoing labor of science and discovery.  I am not telling you here that god does

Sometimes the better part of love is silence.

Para los demás, él no era más que un nombre y un apellido. Pero Nina Citrone lo había reconocido como persona, había visto en él una amabilidad cuya existencia él mismo desconocía.

That's the way adults often talk to children. You know they're not going to listen, but you want to tell them anyway just so you know that you have.

Pete was relaxed around them, so Maggie tolerated them, but only when Pete was near.

Scott turned away with Maggie at his side. He felt like an idiot for believing he had discovered a glaring discrepancy when top-cop detectives like Orso and Cowly knew the case inside and out. Scott wasn't an idiot, but three more days would pass before he understood.