Quotes about understanding

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“Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.”

“And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.”

“I write to understand as much as to be understood.”

“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”

“and that is what heaven is for, for understanding your life on Earth.”

“God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.”

“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.”

“Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.”

“Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.”

“He understands now why kisses in movies are filmed the way they are, with the camera endlessly circling, circling: the ground is unsteady under his.”

“Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding”

“You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.”

“In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.”

“I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.”

“It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem… Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?”

“I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.”

“You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.”

“She's a woman, you're a dude. You're notto understand her. That'swhat she's after…. She doesn't want you to understand. She knowsimpossible. She just wants you to understand. Everything else is negotiable.”

“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.”

“A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.”

“When a person knows and can't
make the others understand, what does he do?”

“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”

“I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.”

“Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.”

“A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.”

“I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant”

“This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.”

“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”

“You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?”

“We understand more than we know.”

“Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of "wrong" ideas.”

“How was it that Adrian Ivashkov, who never seemed to take anything seriously was the only one among these "responsible" people who paid attention to such small details? How was he the only one to really understand the magnitude of what I was feeling?”

“If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.”

“Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make Tessa love him.”

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.”

“I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.”

“And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.”

“But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”

“Gruff,” I said, “I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what’s in a fae woman’s mind.”

“She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.”

“Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable --"
"He's not my friend." Isabelle looked over at Jace, who was staring at her in a sort of daze. "He's my brother.”

“That thing that looks like me but isn't? He'll burn down the world if Sebastian wants him to, and laugh while he's doing it. That's what you're saving, Clary.. Don't you understand? I'd rather be dead”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“In all your getting, get understanding.”

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.”

“So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the West today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.”

“Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (…) What you can't understand, you destroy.”

“Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”

“There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others.”

“And you will understand all too soon
That you, my children of battle, are your heroes”

“It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”
“Mm. Those are some of the best lies.”

“Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.”

“My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.”

“He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything.”

“The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come. And then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does.”

“With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.”

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”

“But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.”

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”

“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.”

“I can understand bitchiness in any language.”

“I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.”

“I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.”

“Light came into the darkness, but the darkness didn't understand it," Susan said. "Look to the light. Only the light can save you from yourself.”

“All is love… All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.”

“It's a fact that people are afraid of what they don't understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out more.”

“He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.”

“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”

“People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.”

“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.”

“The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. This is poetry as illumination, for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are, until the poem, nameless and formless-about to be birthed, but already felt. That distillation of experience from which true poetry springs births thought as dream births concept, as feeling births idea, as knowledge births (precedes) understanding.”

“Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
As souls only understand souls.”

“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't a true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world.”

“If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.”

“Hopeless implies that at one time there was hope. And that's another word I don't understand. Hope only exists for people who have choices. [Zarek]”

“Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.”

“There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.”

“You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.”

“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”

“All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.”

“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”

“Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.”

“There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.”

“One place understood helps us understand all places better”

“This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist.”

“But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities--besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them”

“I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.”

“To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.”

“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”

“But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.”

“I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand.”

“Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.”

“When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.”

“Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of goofing off.
Because if not, how boring would that be?”

“To destroy the enemy it can be necessary to understand him.”

“I liked things better when I didn't understand them.”

“And now I understand something so frightening, and wonderful — how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.”