Quotes About Understanding

The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.

Bowen looked nervously about for peasants. It would be unendurable if they all turned out to be full of instinctive wisdom and natural good manners and unself-conscious grace and a deep, articulate understanding of death.

Het is nooit prettig om je diepste overtuigingen in hun historische context geplaatst te zien worden.

cuando un cálculo confirma las propias expectativas, uno simplemente se reafirma un poco en su comprensión intuitiva de las leyes de la física. Pero cuando un cálculo contradice las expectativas, uno está en el camino hacia una nueva intuición.

Rigour and ruthlessness do not preclude sympathy with another's point of view.

Dattebayo! (Do you get what I am saying?!)

We're both of the same breed, after all … motives for war are of no concern. Religion, ideology, resources, land, grudges, love, or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it's enough to start a war. Out of love, sacrifice is born. Hate is born. and we are able to know pain! If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them. But just because you understand them doesn't mean you can come to an agreement. That's the truth.

Ovi listovi govore o mnogima, ali za mene samo o jednoj.

Deres KH Deres KH menes Deres KH. Altsaa Knut Kongsberg. Deres Knut Kongsberg, Kongsbergknuten Deres, forstaar De.

My heart understands all, and it no longer beats, it peals.

Daniel var en mand som forstod adskillig, han hadde været ute for et og andet i livet, hadde mistet både sin farsgård og sin kjæreste, han visste hvad omsorg og rømmekoller og godt mot betydde.

Og naar hun kommer, forstaar mit Hjerte alt, og det slaar ikke længer, det klemter.

At hun ikke hadet faret vild kom av at hun overhodet ikke for.

Frank said nothing. Which was a good answer.

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Hun var deilig til mig. Jeg var gåt tilbunds og det var hun også, vi levet begge p bunden. det gjorde de andre omkring os også. Alle mennesker gik og gik på bunden...

Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know.

and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.

Lernen und nicht denken ist nichtig, denken und nicht lernen ist ermüdend.

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.

It is not enough to discover the secret of a play, its thought and feelings—the actor must be able to convert them into living terms.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Violet remembered that slap; later her mother had called it a love tap, as if to further confuse love with pain.

I'm no expert with females"—the others rolled their eyes at that—"but I believe an attempted decapitation communicates the need for some space.