Quotes About Understanding

Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world. That is what he wishes to say. He is right. You may always explain: you never are understood.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

Great doubts, deep wisdom; Small doubts, little wisdom -

Friendship is love with understanding.

Sammen finder vi ikke hinanden, men vi begynder måske at finde os selv.

You may not be able to see the battle others are fighting, and you may believe they are confident and have never known sadness or fear, but believe me, they have, so be kind. Take

They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing

whatever problem you have with someone, project yourself into the other person and see it from their point of view.

Home is the school where we learn that love shows itself in the details.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Quiero que la gente se calle tan pronto deje de sentir

She uses a new image to make me understand how she lives: it's like the morning when she bathes and her body withdraws while she stares at the surface of the bath water. 'I am the thought on the bath in the room without mirrors.

I knew everything, so hard have I tried to read in my streams of tears.

La plus grande faiblesse de la pensée contemporaine me paraît résider dans la surestimation extravagante du connu par rapport à ce qui reste à connaître.

Avant de te connaître, j'avais rencontré le malheur, le désespoir. Avant de te connaître, allons donc, ces mots n'ont pas de sens. Tu sais bien qu'en te voyant la première fois, c'est sans la moindre hésitation que je t'ai reconnue.

Ninguém é sábio por inteiro, mas quem se resignaria a ser totalmente louco?

Please do not understand me too quickly.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

Ah ! pourquoi l'intelligence des femmes veut-elle toujours choisir un autre objet que le sien ? - Quel est le sien, cher ? - Le charme et la compréhension, de toute évidence. Elle réfléchit. - Ce que les hommes appellent ainsi, c'est la soumission de l'esprit. Vous ne reconnaissez chez une femme que l'intelligence qui vous approuve.

Juger c'est, de toute évidence ne pas comprendre puisque, si l'on comprenait, on ne pourrait pas juger.