Quotes About Understanding

I have lived long enough to realize that there is no such thing as perfect love. That's too long.

But always among the humans, there are those individuals who would control all they see and are threatened by that which they do not understand.

We don't use the term savage Injun anymore. Some people take issue with being described as savages. Go figure.

M...maybe,' I stutter. 'Whatever the reason, this woman has problems. We need to be compassionate, show understanding.' 'Or slice her head off. I have plastic bags.' Sure. We could toss her in the car beside her partner, then drive to the mall where I dumped Macey and line up all three bodies together in the Lexus. Hell, why not steal Connie's corpse from the morgue to complete the set?

If I were a male—one of your precious sprites—we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

Know thine enemy

Obviously, that's a translation.)

Scusatemi tutti

Wowbagger felt Trillian squeeze his arm and his anxiety drained away. He looked at her. How was that possible? How did you do that?

Are you just saying the same thing in a different way? Is that why I sent you to university?

Maybe if we're living in the middle of a development with plenty of witnesses, then Hooke might settle down some and back off. Squib's warped reasoning was based on a child's understanding of evil men. He couldn't know that specimens like Regence Hooke didn't get settled down; they got riled up.

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.

If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them.

For even sheep do not vomit up their grass and show to the shepherds how much they have eaten; but when they have internally digested the pasture, they produce externally wool and milk. Do you also show not your theorems to the uninstructed, but show the acts which come from their digestion.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Whenever anyone criticizes or wrongs you, remember that they are only doing or saying what they think is right. They cannot be guided by your views, only their own; so if their views are wrong, they are the ones who suffer insofar as they are misguided.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.

He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.