Quotes About Understanding

Because our minds process information solely through analogy and categorization, we are often defeated when presented with something that fits no category.

There will never be a grand unified theory, Gloria. We will never find it. Not in our lifetimes, and it'll be too late.

But he didn't tell her and she didn't tell him, and if it guessed their secrets, it kept silent. He

Better not to think of people living here, of it being empty Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and yet now you want someone to remember, to understand what was lost, even if it was little enough.

she said not a word because to say anything—anything at all—would be to humiliate him, and she cared more about him than that. And it cost her nothing.

What can you do when your five senses are not enough? Because I still couldn't truly see it here, any more than I had seen it under the microscope, and that's what scared me the most. Why couldn't I see it?

Death, as I was beginning to understand it, was not the same thing here as back across the border.

We all just want to people, and none of us know what that really means.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

When you are too close to the center of a mystery there is no way to pull back and see the shape of it entire.

That's the problem with people who are not human. You can't tell how badly they're hurt, or how much they need your help, and until you ask, they don't always know how to tell you.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

Criminalistics doesn't exist in a vacuum. The more you know about your environment, the better you can apply- (This quote was never completed in the book because Rhyme stopped abruptly at the end of it. I really wish he had finished his thought.)

human beings have an intense craving, often unfulfilled, to be understood by someone else.

But what he meant is that we must always keep one foot in the client's world.

entails a warm reception and not a preemptive condemnation. To dialogue, one must know how to lower the defenses, to open the doors of one's home and to offer warmth.

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking

Be available to cover for a teacher who is de-escalating a challenging student. It is symbolically very meaningful when an administrator offers to cover a class, for even three minutes, so that the teacher can complete a complex interaction with a challenging student. Designate other faculty that can also be tapped when the need arises.

and then I said, "I love you" and all he said back was, "I know". "I know"... what does that mean?!

How do you know it's love and not obsession?

Faith is the only reasonable response to the truth.

Though faith is not illogical, it trusts God even when it cannot fully make sense of all the data at hand.

Lo más importante es que hay un gran propósito detrás de la Creación y la Caída. Aprendemos que nada sucede por error; que no hay personajes irrelevantes; que hay un propósito para todo y para todos.

Not only did the seventeenth-century Baptists understand the dual nature of Abraham's covenant; they also understood this dual nature to be the ground of the continuity and discontinuity of the rest of the divine covenants.