Quotes About Understanding

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

Después de todo, ¿qué diferencia hay entre vivir y dar explicaciones sobre la vida?

Tenemos opiniones definidas acerca de cómo hacer las cosas y de cómo deberían ser los otros. Estas opiniones carecen de comprensión, porque cuanto más definitivas son las opiniones, tanto más necesario es que no nos distraigamos comprendiendo demasiado a los que queremos cambiar".

Experience of others can be known only as a processed, interpreted story of what the others lived through.

Don Quijote no fue conquistador, fue conquistado. Pero en su derrota, tal como nos enseñó Cervantes, demostró que 'la única cosa que nos queda frente a esa ineludible derrote que se llama vida es intentar comprenderla'.

Don Quijote no fue conquistador, fue conquistado. Pero en su derrota, tal como nos enseñó Cervantes, demostró que 'la única cosa que nos queda frente a esa ineludible derrota que se llama vida es intentar comprenderla'.

Real dialogue isn't about talking to people who believe the same things as you.

The main point about civility is...the ability to interact with strangers without holding their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.

But the one thing I don't understand is the incessant strain of the mind and will, the diabolical waste of spiritual strength.

But all memories, no matter how distant, no matter how distorted, have the shadow of truth underneath. Even the most imperfect memory is a window—

Quiet fell upon the pickup and lasted for a little over nineteen minutes. Is that why you hang around with him?, Loretta asked. Cuz he saved your life? Sort'a. I know Earl isn't always easy to get along with. Fact is, he can be a real pain the ass more often than not, but after you spend enough time with him, and you learn to ignore his personality, he's a pretty decent guy. If you say so.

with towards none and charity for all...

with malice towards none and charity for all...

If we just had some time to ourselves, we could talk to each other the way we used to. Maybe about nothing in particular at first, but even that would be a start.

Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.

How do you spell 'love'? - Piglet You don't spell it...you feel it. - Pooh

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.

Understanding (not necessarily acceptance) is vital in dealing with other people, whether those people are human, Simiu, Mizari, or energy beings.

Only when compassion is present will people allow themselves to see the truth.

You came one day and as usual in such matters significance filled everything- your eyes, the things you knew, the way you turned, leaned, stood, or sat, this way or that.

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.

It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to.... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.

The connection with him is a connection with part of myself, and it has to do with a kind of insatiable curiosity. I mean the part of me that gets connected to the rest of me when I'm connecting to him. The insatiably curious part.