Quotes About Understanding

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with Daniel, and Daniel's friend Howard and his girlfriend

If we're going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It's the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can't imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America's alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.

Women invented misery, but we don't understand it.

There is not going to be any change unless we can begin to talk about any little fear, any little hatred, any little bias that we might have and to admit that all human beings have them.

Education is not just about acquiring knowledge and skills but about being initiated into a certain sensibility.

every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity.

The difference between a hermeneutics of restoration and a hermeneutics of suspicion, we might say, lies in the difference between unveiling and unmasking. Here

So before you let people blunder around reinventing the process every time someone gets the urge to innovate, it makes sense to understand it first.

And of course, customers are notorious for being unable to articulate a need until they are shown how it can be met.

God gives us all kinds, and we just gots to love 'em however they

Tutti dicono che il cervello sia l'organo più complesso del corpo umano, da medico potrei anche acconsentire. Ma come donna vi assicuro che non vi è niente di più complesso del cuore, ancora oggi non si conoscono i suoi meccanismi. Nei ragionamenti del cervello c'è logica, nei ragionamenti del cuore ci sono le emozioni.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

I just took the box and nodded, because that's how you treat crazy people. You nod and count down twenty-seven days for crazy to come to an end.

She refused to call Fern by her name, and that made Big Ma right about Cecile.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!

A wise man listens to gain knowledge and not to debate.

A wise man waits until everyone else has spoken.

Beauty is seen through the eyes, but beautiful people are only known through your heart.

No one can penetrate silence; they can only interpret what is said. However, silence will create an abundance of speculative suppositions.