Quotes About Understanding

With relief I arrived at memory's peak, and a broader landscape came into view.

It is when the suffering of others becomes part of my own experience that I truly know what it is to live and what it is to write.

The principle of least surprise is not for you only. The principle of least surprise means principle of least my surprise.

What more could I have done when I did not know that to love is both to seek and to be sought? For me love was nothing but a dialogue of little riddles, with no answers given.

But there is no such thing as individual knowledge, a particular knowledge belonging to one special person or group. Knowledge is the sea of humanity, the field of humanity, the general condition of human existence.

Because the fact of not being understood by other people had become my only real source of pride, I was never confronted by any impulse to express things and to make others understand something that I knew.

It's odd how one's memories of youth turn out so bleak. Why does the business of growing up—one's recollections of growth itself—have to be so tragic? I still haven't found the answer. I doubt if anybody has. When I finally reach that stage at which the placid wisdom of old age... occasionally descends on a person, then I too may suddenly discover that I understand. But I doubt whether, by that time, understanding will have much point.

A un cuore che tenti di avvicinarsi, il cuore dell'altro sembra lontano

When we plot the happiness of another, we unconsciously impute to the other person what is in another form the dream in which our own happiness is fulfilled. Thus by not thinking of our own happiness we make it possible for ourselves to become egotistic.

He never made fun of her as her neighbors did. That was why she visited him. He felt in this mad, ugly woman five years his senior a comrade in apartness. He liked people who refused to recognize the world.

It's not so much the harming of people's bodies I find objectionable, but of their hearts.

Because the fact of not being understood by other people had become my only real source of pride, I was never confronted by any impusle to express things and to make others understand something that I knew. I thought that those things which could be seen by others were not ordained for me. My solitude grew more and more obese, just like a pig.

When one has attained a state of mind from which the evil passions of the present world have been so utterly winnowed, fear too is forgotten. Thus it was that the priest no longer could understand why Hell should exist.

Don't ask things that don't concern you. After all, everybody has their own reasons.

Não se pode explicar alguma coisa meramente lhe dando um nome.

Frauen sind wirklich kluge Wesen, was? (S.89, Jukichi)

People tend to be most terrified by the inexplicable. Fear seems to fade when a possible solution arises.

Your heart can become someone else's heart, too. I feel it. She and I are connected…! We're connected.

Science, in all its greatness, is still subject to human creativity. It starts the first moment a child tries to reach up and grab at the clouds. Soon, the child learns that his own hands cannot reach the sky, but his hands are not the limit of his potential. For the human brain observes, considers, understands, and adapts. Locked within the mind is infinite possibility.

It depends on what's in your heart. Will this love make you oblivious to all around you? Abandoning all, hurting whatever's in your path? Or will it make you a more complete person? One who can feel love for ALL things? (Nagi to Sarasa)

I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.

Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge: Knowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul. If you have failed to understand yourself, Then all of your reading has missed its call.

Hak cihâna tol?dur kimseler Hakk'? bilmez / An? sen senden iste o senden ayru olmaz.

Unless we know ourselves and our history, and other people and their history, there is really no way that we can really have positive kinds of interaction where there is real understanding.