Quotes About Understanding

bonus." The subject is anti-Americanism for its own sake, where resorting to general assumptions about the United States contributes nothing, either descriptively or analytically, to understanding the topic at hand, but instead chiefly serves the purpose of confirming and mobilizing preexisting prejudices.

The lack of understanding by the Germans, but not only the Germans, for Anglo-Saxon traditions and American reality is an old story. —Hannah Arendt

what nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.

If you look for a meaning, you'll miss everything that happens.

What moved me was the theme of the harmony which is born only of sacrifice, the twofold experience of love. It's not a question of mutual love: what nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment, it is nothing.

We have to assume that the people whose dwelling-places, artefacts, lives even, we are dealing with were rational, integrated, sane and sensible human beings. Then we look around at our own contemporaries and wonder how this belief can possibly be sustained.

One can easily imagine a talker and a withdrawer in a relationship facing a joint stress and dealing with that stress in very different ways that intensify their differences. Talkers want to share their concerns with their intimate partners, intensifying the withdrawer's need for time alone.

Like I said before, I'm ten now, so I've had some time to figure out some stuff.

Mrs. Byrne." Mrs. Byrne smiled. "Hello, Nora. You look a little down. Hard day?" I nodded and said, "Yeah.

David?" Dave had been home five minutes when he heard his mom come in the front door and call his name. He was upstairs. In the bathroom. She called again. "David, answer me!" To be more specific, Dave was sitting on the toilet. "DAVID! ANSWER ME!" Dave knew that tone of voice. He had to do something right away. So he reached over and banged on the inside of the bathroom door. It was the wrong move. His mom was up those front stairs and

By being published, any author's words cease to be his own, but rather belong to his reader.

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

What is it like to wear another person's skin?" "I don't have a good answer for that," I said. "It hurts." "Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt?

The best a man can do is to remain silent, because any time he prates on about God, he is committing the sin of lying. The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

Talking with the mouth of a beast won't ease your pain.

You're scared and I understand that. I know it's difficult because you want to imagine the ending but you can't even imagine the beginning. But everything will be ok. It just takes time.

The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

I was learning it was possible to love more than just God. In fact, I was learning it was better to love more than just God.

Is that all I am to you? A source of amusement?

To face this fact is to encounter one of the most demanding challenges in thinking about history: explaining how people in the past could have failed to see what seems so clear to us in retrospect. This is an imperative task but also a delicate and exacting one. On one hand, explanation can shade into excuse, on the other hand, passing judgment on the past can be a form of self-congratulation in the present.

The ultimate judge in science is always what nature itself reveals based on observations, experiments, models, and testing. Science is not merely a body of knowledge, but a method by which we attempt to understand nature and how it behaves.

People who have no emotional stake in a decision can see what needs to be done sooner.

A work of art is...a bridge, however tenuous, between one mind and another.

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