Quotes About Understanding

Learning to understand those you hate and fear is harder. I

Nina made a dramatic sigh. "She won't give me one, either," she lamented

He cupped my jaw with his hand. It was warm, and I didn't pull away. And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love, that trust. His faultless blue eyes never blinked, and I held my breath. It can be beautiful, Rachel, when there is trust and love. No one is bound. No one loses his or her will. No one becomes less. Both become more than they can be alone. But it is so rare, so beautiful when it happens.

I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff.

To the guy who finishes my sentences and gets my jokes. Even the lame ones.

Because for all the changes, some things were immutable truths: friendship transcends all barriers, understanding trumps fear, and great power can always be surmounted by determination. And with Trent, Al, Ivy, and Jenks beside me, we had all three. I always had.

It's so much easier when everyone understands you can love two people at the same time." She flushed. "For different reasons and in different ways.

I don't want to live not remembering why I love. (Ivy Tamwood)

It must be exhausting to be in your head, Sam told me once. I think what he must have meant was it was exhausting for him to hear about it. I exhausted him. -Cackle by Kim Harrison

Mr. Ray, you yelled at it again, didn't you? I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff.

How is it that young people most need our love when they least deserve it?

The intense desire to talk with someone, sharp as any pain; this was what people meant when they talked about love. Or rather; this was what Sax would acknowledge to be love. Just the super-heightened desire to share thoughts. That alone.

Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.

History is humankind trying to get a grip.

Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation.

People didn't understand that true intimacy did not consist of sexual intercourse, which could be done with strangers and in a state of total alienation; intimacy consisted of talking for hours about what was most important in one's life.

Of all the hatreds, none is greater than that of ignorance for knowledge.

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people's heads.

Relationships were for that reason utterly mysterious, they took place between two subconscious minds, and whatever the surface trickle thought was going on could not be trusted to be right.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

Much of human language is said to be fundamentally metaphorical. This is not good news. Metaphor, according to Aristotle, is an intuitive perception of a similarity in dissimilar things.

But long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: The less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them; while on the other hand, to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.