Quotes about understanding

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“You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.”

“Very well. I understand. Just… shut up!”

“You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”

“Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling & emotion because if we try to decipher it & understand it, the magic disappears.”

“We refuse to believe that which we don't understand.”

“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.”

“All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.”

“there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.”

“Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.”

“Ah," said the magus, understanding at once. "I see that he means to be prepared if he meets him again."
"Surely that's unlikely," said Sounis.
"I don't think unlikely means to him what it does to the rest of us," said the magus.”

“Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.”

“I don't expect you to understand anything I'm telling you. But I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.”

“Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.”

“Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.”

“I think the important thing to remember is that all relationships benefit from a bit of breathing room. Especially friendships. It's only when you find yourself without the women who understand you that you realize there are very few women who will.”

“It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”

“Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.”

“I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have time, I will come to understand you -- better than anyone else in the world ever can.”

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

“[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.”

“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.”

“All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable.”

“A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”

“What made you fall in love with a prostitute?”
“I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.”

“Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.”

“I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt”

“No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.”

“As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.”

“What you don't understand you can make mean anything.”

“Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.”

“Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.”

“What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.”

“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.”

“They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.”

“Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?”

“Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.”

“I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.”

“Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.”

“What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.”

“Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding…”

“I didn't understand why I needed help, because it seemed to me that youwear heavy boots when your dad dies, and if youwearing heavy boots, you need help.”

“Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering.
Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them.
Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.”

“I'll never understand how a man can live his life
With his finger on the self-destruct button,
Holding it there day after day,
Blinded by an obsession to press it
But lacking the conviction to do even that.”

“It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.”

“It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.”

“I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.”

“It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.”

“There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.”

“I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.”

“If I could only reach out and touch the stars, I would know everything. I would understand.”

“It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link… He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.”

“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.”

“What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”

“Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.”

“You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”

“I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.”

“We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it—that makes no sense. What mycould never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.”

“I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

“The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you”

“No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.”

“I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place.”

“Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.”

“Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under
them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.”

“I was beginning to understand. My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things; that was why everything had to be perfect.”

“Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?”

“The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.”

“His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.”

“And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.”

“I just don’t see how anyone can be so cold. (Kiara)
And you should be grateful, little girl, to whatever god you worship, that you can say that. In the world we come from, I don’t understand how anyone can be anything but cold. (Syn)”

“There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.”

“I… understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.”

“What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand?”

“B. O. B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me. Good night Gideon.”

“Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.”

“Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.”

“i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”

“It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.”

“Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.”

“I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can be.”

“This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.”

“Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.”

“No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.”

“The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.”

“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”

“There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.”

“I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.”

“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”

“You can only possess beauty through understanding it.”

“I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.”

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”

“Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”

“You can’t blame someone if they honestly don’t understand that their reality isn’t the same as yours.”

“‎"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul.”

“Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.”

“I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?”

“The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.”

“People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.”

“It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.”

“See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand.”