Quotes About Understanding

he tried to visualise her apartment, but he couldn't do it, he didn't know enough about her.

The vulgar always assumed it was best to try to know everything; in his experience it was often better to know as little as possible. "Before

Truth, in other words, was a matter of perspective.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? —Cicero, Orator, 46 BC

What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

How shall the mind keep warm save at spectral fires--how thrive but by the light of paradox?

Love is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy

Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained through ignorance.

All things are known, Tallis, but most things are forgotten.

If I stop to describe exactly how scared I was every time something scary happens, we'll be here for the next ten years. So do me a favour. At parts like this imagine how you'd've felt, and we'll both do fine.

Be slow to label others as assholes, be quick to label yourself as one.

Fight as if you are right, listen as if you are wrong.

The University of Michigan's Karl Weick advises, "Fight as if you are right; listen as if you are wrong.

Listen to those under your supervision. Really listen. Don't act as if you're listening and let it go in one ear and out the other. Faking it is worse than not doing it at all.

The problem is, most men don't express their emotions.

first phase is referred to as the cognitive phase. During this phase, the teacher is attempting to understand the strategy, but not using it with any utility or effectiveness.

Trying to understand major economic events by looking only at data on changes in economic aggregates, such as gross domestic product, wage rates, interest rates, and tax rates, runs the risk of missing the underlying motivations for change. Doing so is like trying to understand a religious awakening by looking at the cost of printing religious tracts.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.

You read too much and understand too little.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

Knowing serves no real purpose, but then, neither does not knowing. Myself, I always prefer knowing to not.

i can't understand her well son, you might as well try to understand the sun