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We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
— Ram Dass
What rules?”“Well, for one, I’m not allowed to break your heart,” he says. “Second, I’m also not allowed to break your damn heart. And last, I’m not allowed to fucking break your damn heart.
— Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love
Why should things be easy to understand?
— Thomas Pynchon
We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.
— Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
I stopped. She was bleeding after all. Perfect lines crossed her wrists, not near any crucial veins, but enough to leave wet red tracks across her skin. She hadn;t hit her veins when she did this; death hadn't been her goal.
— Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays
— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
— Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person's soul.
— John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.
— Federico Fellini
I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters,the days of my life, already lived,and held like a legend, and understood.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
— Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle
The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
— Ralph G. Nichols
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy
— Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
— Albert Einstein
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.
— Paulo Coelho
To be understood is to prostitute oneself
— Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa
It is growing up different. It is extreme hypersensitivity. It is a bottomless pit of feeling you're failing, but three days later, you feel you can do anything, only to end the week where you began. It is not learning from your mistakes. It is distrusting people because you have been hurt enough. It is moments of knowing your pain is self inflicted, followed by blaming the world. It is wanting to listen, but you just can’t anymore because your life has been to full of people that have judged you. It is fighting to be right; so for once in your life someone will respect and hear you for a change. It is a tiring life of endless games with people, in order to seek stimulus. It is a hyper focus, so intense about what bothers you, that you can’t pay attention to anything else, for very long. It is a never-ending routine of forgetting things. It is a boredom and lack of contentment that keeps you running into the arms of anyone that has enough patience to stick around. It wears you out. It wears everyone out. It makes you question God’s plan. You misinterpret everything, and you allow your creative mind to fill the gaps with the same old chains that bind you. It narrows your vision of who you let into your life. It is speaking and acting without thinking. It is disconnecting from the ones you love because your mind has taken you back to what you can’t let go of. It is risk taking, thrill seeking and moodiness that never ends. You hang your hope on “signs” and abandon reason for remedy. It is devotion to the gifts and talents you have been given, that provide temporary relief. It is the latching onto the acceptance of others---like a scared child abandoned on a sidewalk. It is a drive that has no end, and without “focus” it takes you nowhere. It is the deepest anger when someone you love hurts you, and the greatest love when they don't. It is beauty when it has purpose. It is agony when it doesn’t. It is called Attention Deficit Disorder.
— Shannon L. Alder
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
— Alice Walker
If you understood everything I said, you’d be me
— Miles Davis
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
— Elbert Hubbard
Sometimes it hurts to look at you,” I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what I meant.
— Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer
she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
The superior man understands what is right
—  the inferior man understands what will sell.
One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.
— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
— Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You
To live without love for others is to live in aridity, to be self-serving and fruitless. To live without understanding is to live without sense or purpose. To live without awareness is to live as the deaf, blind and dumb in a world of vibrant light and sound.
— Belsebuub, Gazing into the Eternal: Reflections upon a Deeper Purpose to Living
She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear.
— Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight
We practically always excuse things when we understand them
— Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
Learn to see what you are looking at.
— Christopher Paolini, Inheritance
I’m smart in some ways- pretty good vocabulary, solid at math – but I am definitely the stupidest smart person there is… I was going to be the worst friend in the history of dying girls… Because I don’t really have a moral compass and I need to rely on (Earl) for guidance, or else I might accidentally become like a hermit or a terrorist or something. How fucked up is that.
— Jesse Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.
— Hugh MacLennan, The Watch that Ends the Night
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue
—  not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier work of understanding.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
No one could possibly understand my purest feelings but I couldn't care less
—  My deepest yearnings are nobody's goddamn business anyway
If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.
— Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
When it comes to the crusty behavior of some people, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be drowning right before your eyes, but you can't see it. And you would never ask someone to drown with a smile on his face.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.
— Ron Hall
What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
I asked her if she believed you could ever truly understand another culture. I told her the longer I stayed, the more asinine the attempt seemed, and that what I’d become more interested in is how we believed we could be objective in any way at all, we who each came in with our own personal definitions of kindness, strength, masculinity, femininity, God, civilisation, right and wrong.
— Lily King, Euphoria
As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly.
— Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
You don't have to own something for it to be you. Haven't you ever gone into a gallery and seen a painting and said 'that's me'. Or had a piece of music capture something deep down you didn't even know was there? You realize it's always been part of youl you've just never heard it before.
— James L. Rubart
My brother, he says. My brother is dead."And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have a brother too.
— Dana Reinhardt, The Things a Brother Knows
Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
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.
— Marcel Duchamp
Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.
— Shannon L. Alder
I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil.
— Charles B. Rangel
It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.
— Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
A perfect love is not all about devotion and loyalty, it is understanding little tiny things.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it also to things which I do not understand: and as the will is of itself indifferent to these, it easily falls into error and sin, and chooses the evil for the good, or the false for the true.
— René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
After all, everyone may not start with the same financial opportunities; however everyone does start with the choice to live their life with integrity, trust, love, respect,understanding for each other and oneself.
— Tasha Hoggatt, What Makes You Great?
In general, I feel if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.
— John Rogers Searle
Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)
— Ovid
This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb.
— CLAMP, xxxHolic, Vol. 2
By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible
The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.
— Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves
The small smiles everybody wanted to try to figure out – they meant nothing, really. She wasn't so good at talking and the smiles made up for it. They filled the spaces in which she ought to have answers for things with something that gave people more questions.
— C. JoyBell C., Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948
Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?
— Lionel Suggs
I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as the currents of the winds change - leaves too much room for one's own cultural bias. Instead, introverts tend to turn inward, the laboratory of being and all its forms. This is the most accurate study of the individual human being, which is in turn, rather than those affected by cultural limitations, the most universal reflection of human understanding and human behavior.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence proceeds sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from supersition; the light of experience, from arrogrance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.1620 - Francis Bacon
— Carl Sagan
Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.
— W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
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.
— Ann Beattie, Walks with Men
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
— A. Lee Martinez, In the Company of Ogres
The great soul understands the small-minded.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Thank you, Tempest, for loving me when understanding was too hard. Thank you for understanding when loving me is impossible.
— Tracy Deebs
But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others.
— Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
— Anita Brookner, Latecomers
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
— Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
I really had no idea you'd be this stupid but then again you were the only person that really got me
— Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)
I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.
— Elizabeth Berg, The Pull of The Moon
The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
— Billy Sunday
They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.
— Iris Johansen, Dead Aim
It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's mission is to convert
—  a theological philosopher's mission is to build an understanding of a position.
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
— Jane Austen, Emma
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding
— John Knowles
Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings.
— James L. Halperin, The First Immortal
...unlike knowledge, understanding cannot be taught. It must be achieved.
— Dave Donovan
Understanding” is a word that I cherish. Understanding is what helps us to love before we judge. Understanding helps us to know more of ourselves and do the same to others.
— D'Andre Lampkin
When we seek to understand what makes each of us different before we seek to be understood, we learn. Understanding fosters mutual respect for one another.
— D'Andre Lampkin
and afterward, after it was done, it was too much, and I felt like I was going to... I don't know.... explode, and it was just too much, I had to let it out you know? I had to-I interrupted her hysteria It's okay, I understand.That was a lie. I didn't get her cutting at all. She'd done it sporadically, ever since the accident and it scared me each time. She'd try to explain it to me, how she didn't want to die - she just needed to get it out somehow. She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.
— Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.
— Immanuel Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft
Why do they make things so complicated?""So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value.""It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Nobody can define what exactly true love is. Some believe in it and many others don't. If somebody tries to define it, there will be many agreements and disagreements. Especially since nowadays marriages don't even last long anymore which encourages many to stay single. Faith and understanding in relationships is what many lack because it seems we've forgotten nothing and no one is perfect.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?
— Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.
— John Dufresne, Love Warps the Mind a Little
The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I had understood that henceforth I must interrogate the evidence of Photography, not from the viewpoint of pleasure, but in relation to what we romantically call love and death.
— Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.
— Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn't have the will to examine it just then.
— Rachel Hartman, Shadow Scale
Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.
— Lisa Alther
cautiously, you avoid trouble. See all that you can – then, if you forget the perilous and
— Confucius, The Analects
For throughout history, the synthesizing impulse has proved a powerful even world-changing, tool for understanding the universe, capable of penetrating the intricate,contradictory web of surface phenomena to reveal the universal,unified cosmos beneath--that fundamental,unchanging phenomenon we call truth.
— Gerard Helferich, Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey that Changed the Way We Se
Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.
— Tamora Pierce
Just as we may, through an appalled realization that we were unaware of what was going on in the mind of one we thought we knew, come to wonder how we ever know what another person is thinking or feeling, so too we may, having on some occasion wanted badly to understand and having clearly failed, come to wonder how we ever manage to understand, and how we know that we have succeeded.
— Patrick Wilson
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
— Gene Wolfe, Sword & Citadel
Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much suffering during the war because of the betrayal of those collaborators, so many killed and hurt because of what they had done to families, that the mood for revenge against the traitors was very high. It was not right, but it was understandable.
— Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight—a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth.
— Maud Casey, Genealogy
Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect.
— Michael W. Fox
I don't write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don't. And, I can't help feeling like I should at least give them the illusion that they do.
— Thurman P. Banks Jr.
The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way – perhaps the final way - is to say: Go forward, without knowing why, as quickly as possible, towards an unknown goal! To act and think are opposites which identify one only in the Absolute. To accomplish all one's movements – of the head, the arms, the legs – without ever quite attaining the status of a puppet, but with a certainty that gives one a feeling of rightness: that is what is nowadays held up as the ideal. Be citizens of Universal activity! Forget to be conscious of ourselves! The blind horse gallops without hesitation, not knowing where it is going, not caring where it has been: so let up put out our eyes!
— Rémy de Gourmont
You couldn't stand to see what terrifies warlords.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
It's easy to judge only on the superficial. It takes a lot more time and work to truly understand.
— Mickey Zucker Reichert, I, Robot: To Protect Book 1
I understand you" is the soul behind "I Love You". If this is missing, "I Love You" is empty.
— Drishti Bablani, Uns
My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the criteria for its legitimacy. And if there’s one thing in my life that I don’t understand yet I allow to be legitimate, thinking this way would most certainly be it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Not until you change your lens, true beauty shall always look ugly to you!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Open all closed minds with the key to understanding.
— Jeffrey G. Duarte
A better understanding is a good factor in all things for it gives good reasons for good actions, but to come to a certain understanding, you need to get a certain understanding!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what it's worth.
— Elizabeth Wein, The Pearl Thief
Every heartbeat a syllable for words I can’t speak, to explain what I want from him. What I want from myself. To know and be known, totally and completely. To be someone worth knowing.
— Ryan Galloway, Biome
We can't always know why things happen the way they happen, or why a person makes the choices they do. Knowing why isn't necessary to move forward, unless we make it so.You may never find out why. Don’t let that keep you from moving on with your life.
— Scott Stabile
Love doesn't pity, nor does it resent. Love understands that, no matter our circumstances, we are all equal. We are all the same. We are all worthy of Love.Some have it harder than you. Some have it easier than you. Love them equally.
— Scott Stabile
Understanding what makes you 'tick' isn't half as much fun as finding out what makes you 'tock'!
— Anthony T. Hincks
The journey of life demands diligence; walk in diligence in your entire life endeavors, and don’t let your energy just go anywhere at all. Price yourself well! Price your energy well! Price your attention well! Price your time well! Prioritize your moments well! Be humble enough to understand the meaning of life and don't let excessive pride be your lens. Be assertive enough to know what to kowtow to and what never to give your time, attention, energy and emotions to. You were born great; be great!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Toxic In The Mind: daily use of the mind that kills you slowly
A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequisite of my understanding of human events, is the way I begin work. Just as, of course, it was an initial step when, in my first journalism job, I stumbled into making pictures with a camera. Frame, proportion, perspective, the values of light and shade; all are determined by the distance of the observing eye.
— Eudora Welty, On Writing
Their love was thus seeded in the rich soil of mutual understanding.
— Jacqueline Winspear, The Care and Management of Lies
I get a letter once a week from my mama. She say everything fine at home.. I write her back too, when I can, but what I'm gonna tell her that won't start her bawling again? So I just say we is having a nice time and everybody treating us fine.
— Winston Groom, Forrest Gump
There is always another layer of awareness, understanding, and delight to be discovered through synchronistic and serendipitous events.
— Hannelie Venucia
I wonder if she feels from me the thing I feel about her when I touch her. Not in sex, which he understood now was a different thing from everything else. I just mean when I touch her skin before we sleep and I understand all the things beneath it. Animals can't have that. They can't build their loved ones that way and feel right through their skin. That's never worn off, whatever else. He looked a where she slept. I can't imagine living without that.
— Cynan Jones, The Dig
at last he understood that he has always been forgiven and worthy of love,and that no one could take that from him, that not even he could take that from himself.
— Scott Stabile
But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take the plunge all at once, a plunge that includes comprehension and especially incomprehension. And who am I to dare to think? What I have to do is surrender. How is it done? I know however that only by walking do you know how to walk and - miracle - find yourself walking.
— Clarice Lispector
To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand,
— Walt Whitman, Selected Poems
Let there be light! Abba! Father, let there be light!In our dark moments we cry; let there be light!Light to show us the way; light to shine before all others!Light to see through darkness; light to change all staleness!Let there be light! Abba! Father, we cry, let there be light!Let there be light! Abba! Father, let there be light!The future is always truly uncertain; let there be light!Light to shine on the snares of darkness; light to take steps with calmness!Light for us to see our paths well; light for us to understand your ways well!Let there be light! Abba! Father, we cry, let there be light!Let there be light! Abba! Father, let there be light!We do not know who is coming in the darkness; let there be light!Light to blindfold the attacker; light to change the sinner!Light to give us power; light to make all things better!Let there be light! Abba! Father, we cry, let there be light!Let there be light! Abba! Father, let there be light!We need freedom to do your work; let there be light!Light to free us from bondage; light to escape attackers’ carnage!Light to lead us into your sonship; Light to empower our sonship!Let there be light! Abba! Father, we cry, let there be light!Let there be light! Abba Father, let there be light!We need your light to know the truth; let there be light!Light to enlighten our understanding; light to overcome misunderstanding!Light to withstand strongholds; light to empower our goals!Let there be light! Abba! Father, we cry, let there be light!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There was a time when I do not understand poetry.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Now, when I look into his eyes, I don't see death - but eternity. For the first time in my life, I am looking into someone's gaze and realizing that not only do I understand what's in his eyes...he understands what's in mine.
— Jessica Khoury, Origin
Understanding has no cost, yet, it is too expensive for some people to purchase
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels like from the inside.
— Garth Greenwell
I am not knocking advances that provide a healthier life and alleviate suffering or unnecessary premature death. I am advocating inclusion of education on end-of-life matters and the promotion of understanding, conversation, and planning.
— Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
Tsze-kung wished to dispense with the sacrifice of a sheep for the New Moon ceremony. The Master said, "You love the sheep; I love the ceremony.
— Confucius, The Analects
You assumed whatever was vivid to yourself was vivid to others, and vice versa, but she was going to make him spell it out, for the first time in either of their lives.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
Just because I understand does not mean I agree.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Time changes, that's why our lives change.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Because you were raised by ignorant people. They taught you to use things before you understood them. To kill things before you recognized them. To hate things before you knew them. But you'll appreciate a thing better when you know where it comes from, when your hands know the shape of it.
— Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures
Beware! Your mind is a target!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I think the need to believe in religion is and always was a need to know.Satisfying the NEED TO KNOW, be it by really knowing, by thinking we know or by believing we know, is very comforting for man.Be it by “direct” knowledge,Be it by “emotional” knowledge,Be it by “gut-felt” knowledge,Be it by “spiritual” knowledge,Be it by “transcendental” knowledge,Be it by “meditative” knowledge,Be it by “inspiration”,Be it by “revelation”,Be it knowing by faith orBe it by understanding,We definitely are one humanity under “need to know”.
— Haroutioun Bochnakian, The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
We must understand that the sower and the reaper at the end shall both rejoice
— Sunday Adelaja
...best intentions notwithstanding, no one can control how the media communicates a story and what the public eventually understands.
— Alexandra Zapruder, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film
If one just intellectually understands the view it will not help! One must actually experience it! There are many people who understand the view but don’t experience it. If the view were experienced, they wouldn’t act the way they do!
— Padampa Sangye
She made ugly things beautiful, somehow, and he would never understand it. "pg 346
— Veronics Roth
Understanding” may become “misunderstanding”, if no commitment or no responsibilities are assumed, no specific objectives set, no definite expectations met and common values and interests no longer shared. Mutual understanding may then, against all odds, end up in heartache, confusion and bewilderment. ("Mutual understanding" )
— Erik Pevernagie
As a resident, my highest ideal was not saving lives -- everyone dies eventually -- but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness.
— Paul Kalanithi
Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.
— Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
Life was all about consequences
— Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty
Not everyone has so much deep knowledge and understanding of God's relationship with the Hebrew Nation. Even some of the Christians have no deep understanding of the whole matter. I think we should make it our priority to educate them not to condemn them.
— Euginia Herlihy
A good oration is good and a good understanding is better, but a good action in the right direction that gets the best results is the best!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Don't condemn what you can't comprehend
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
So many people have understanding, but in reality, they don’t really understand understanding! When you really understand understanding, you get a real understanding!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When you live by understanding, you will not be fooled any longer
— Sunday Adelaja
Understanding divine order is to establish the kingdom of love
— Sunday Adelaja
A rape victim... a rape victim who fights...They've been violated, made helpless and afraid. It breaks their confidence in the safety of their little world. It makes them afraid." .... "If you don't fight, it's not quite the same. If they make you help, make you cooperate, then it's not clear to you anymore. Is it rape? You feel dirty, violated, and guilty. Most of all guilty because you should have fought. Especially if you're Mercy and you fight everything.
— Patricia Briggs, Iron Kissed
There is no better place as better as where God has placed you, be it good or bad, for His better reasons. Just keep calm and be humble and diligent enough to learn the better and real reasons that shall take and place you at the best place He wants to place you! If you don’t understand the lessons, ask Him for the reasons. If He answers you fine, if not, just keep going and keep learning the lessons. You shall definitely get a good understanding in the end!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When you live by understanding, you will not live in deception
— Sunday Adelaja
To commune with God is to understand love because God is love
— Sunday Adelaja
Understanding the principles of reproduction is to multiply
— Sunday Adelaja
We need to have an understanding that no matter how difficult the situation is, the victory is ours
— Sunday Adelaja
To have understanding is not to be religious
— Sunday Adelaja
Understanding do not come by being religious
— Sunday Adelaja
Consistent relevancy is to improve and advance more in understanding
— Sunday Adelaja
There is hardly a limit to the knowledge and sympathy a man may have in respect of the finest things, and yet be a fool. Sympathy is not harmony. A man may be a poet even, and speak with the tongue of an angel, and yet be a very bad fool.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Wisdom and understanding is the power to bring light to darkness
— Sunday Adelaja
To realize God’s undeserving love is to continually love others
— Sunday Adelaja
We have reduced the understanding of prayers to incantations.
— Sunday Adelaja
No argument, no reasoning, no blame, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding.It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Only when you observe with the intent to understand you will discover the deeper truth.
— Tatjana Urbic
You're not to blame, it's them for not understanding
— Maite
If we limit love to being nothing more than a feeling, we have no real feeling for what love is.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else.
— Criss Jami
Because that’s what parents do, without even thinking about it, that’s what parents do. They fill their children with love and understanding and compassion and knowledge so that when they’re adults no one can extinguish them. They’ll burn so bright they can’t be brought down.
— Kim Holden, So Much More
There is no such thing as a plain fact of murder. Murder springs, nine times out of ten, out of the character and circumstances of the murdered person. Because the victim was the kind of person he or she was, therefore was he or she murdered! Until we can understand fully and completely exactly what kind of a person [she] was, we shall not be able to see clearly exactly the kind of person who murdered her. From that spring the necessity of our questions.
— Agatha Christie, Evil Under the Sun
And another local journalist wrote an op-ed wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far. Wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far?To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of understanding.
— Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
When you start thinking from other’s point of view, you will understand him more easily and more completely.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
One of the keys to achieving understanding is humility.
— Norhafsah Hamid, Trying to be Muslim
Why should I contemplate the failure or the negativity when everything that it happens, it happens for a reason, that is above our human understanding and we may understand it sooner or later?Why I should not take each step, each second, from the gift - life that I have received it, with trust and confidence in God, the Creator, that allows everything to happen, for His master plan?Is it the expressing of the rage, of the sadness a human nature sin, that is covered under the mask of caring of the human that knows his own smallness?
— Vio Vic
Why should I contemplate the failure or the negativity when everything that it happens, it happens for a reason, that is above our human understanding and we may understand it sooner or later?Why I should not take each step, each second, from the gift - life that I have received it, with trust and confidence in God, the Creator, that allows everything to happen, for His master plan?Is it the expressing of the rage, of the sadness, a human nature sin, that is covered under the mask of caring of the human that knows his own smallness?
— Vio Vic
The world is build on miss understanding and miss concept.
— Deyth Banger
You always have a choice to know your life and live with the understanding or simply give up, to the daily pressure of life.
— Roshan Sharma
She smiled at him, that same look of shared understanding, then reached in again to touch his hand, pinching his palm between her thumb and index finger. 'You OK?''I could be on fire, but seeing you would make it all OK,' he replied, his voice as brittle as a three-pack-a-day smoker.
— Sean Black
Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them.
— Adam Gidwitz, The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
Only God understands how incredibly far we’ve fallen, and only God understands how incredibly far we can rise. And only we can determine if we’re going to wallow in the mediocrity that is born of the refusal to understand either.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Michael, some people are just confused about their sexuality, trying to come to terms with it. There are others who are bisexual too; it doesn’t mean she was trying to deceive you. She must have just been very confused.
— Stevan V. Nikolic, Truth According to Michael
Who gives fuck... does one die or one win... both in the end are in the graveyard... as for now I will focus on if you don't understand me probably is for good.
— Deyth Banger
Truth is the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. Truth has no need to adapt to the changing times, for it is timeless. Time must adapt to it. What is Truth today, was so long ago and will remain so long from now. Truth does not change, only living beings’ understanding of Truth changes. Living beings speak and live according to their own understanding. Yet our understanding is subject to the time in which we live. This is how we may recognize Truth, it is true no matter when it is spoken and no matter who speaks it.
— C W Newman, Self: A Treatise on the Nature of Reality
Understanding requires a person’s ability to grasp or comprehend information.
— Pearl Zhu, Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
Wisdom is unwanted in the colony of fools.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
When you experience something, it actually widens your understanding about everything.
— Jayson Engay
Listening with the focus of actually understanding what the other person is trying to communicate is priceless, a talent that everyone possesses but not something that is practiced enough.
— Christine Marie Bryant
The truth, when finally revealed, is sticky like wet dough. The majority of it stays in place as one handles it, but pieces break off and adhere, making certain facts seem larger, more portentous, than others.
— Angela Flournoy, The Turner House
The answer of understanding more books... is reading more. That's the answer or read more creepypasta or listen to creepypasta.
— Deyth Banger
She seems to always get itTo have become adept at empathyAlways giving excuses for people who’ve aggrieved herTo the point it’s hard for her to hit back when necessary All because she assumes she ‘understands’Then, one day . . .She finally stands up for herselfAt that moment, she revels in the natural instinct of self-preservationShe realises all this while the power she’s been withholdingIn a transcendent moment of epiphanyIt’s all beautiful ‘causeNow, she can get back to empathy with understanding, rather, than without.
— Ufuoma Apoki
It's hard to know what happy is if you're not sure if you've felt it before.
— Kelly Thompson, The Girl Who Would Be King
Experience is the heart of understanding
— Tyler Smeltzer
The high-minded pursuit of a Jiu Jitsu practitioner pursuing mastery cannot coexist well with the modern world. Our values vary immensely from our contemporaries. This pursuit leaves societal norms slaughtered in our wake. Those who share this journey will praise our efforts
—  those in the hive will think we have lost it. We must be willing to be misunderstood if we are to understand ourselves.
We can either approach Jiu Jitsu through the lens of the "real world" or we can approach the real world through the lens of Jiu Jitsu. I have found the latter to be far more rewarding.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
if you could feel what i feel then maybe you'd understand
— hedda holberg
Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.
— Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon
Leave people to their opinions and judgments. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours. Leon Brown
— Leon Brown
Through understanding comes control. Through ignorance one goes on forcing and suppressing. Always do everything with understanding, and you never harm yourself or anybody else.
— Osho, Yoga: The Science of the Soul
I remember seeing this video for the first time in college - miserable, half-drunk on Keystone Light, a Camel Light smoldering in my mouth, about to desperately tap-dance my way through another social interaction - and saying out loud: "I fucking *get* you, Bee Girl.
— Dave Holmes
This and this and this.
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best intentions. And this has strained our bonds of understanding and common purpose.But Americans, I think, have a great advantage. To renew our unity, we only need to remember our values. We have never been held together by blood or background. We are bound by things of the spirit – by shared commitments to common ideals.
— George W. Bush
Thought we explained, but it does matter how that is understood. Is to say - you are not done until you done!
— Praveen Chenna
It is within the boundaries of reflection we are able to become aware of insights that can lead us to understanding.
— Kat Lahr, Anatomy Of Illumination
Fanaticism is the opposite of love. A wise man once told me - he's a Muslim, by the way - that he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Jew than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.
— Robert Aickman, Dark Entries
Expansion in love is an action that is available to every being in the universe all the time. A willing awareness will takeus to heaven, a loving attitude will make us free. Nothing else controls our fate. Good or bad behavior is secondary.Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are thinking, love yourself for thinking it. Love is theonly dimension that needs to be changed. If you are not sure how it feels to be loving, love yourself for not being sure ofhow it feels. There is nothing on earth more important than the love which conscious beings feel towards each other,whether or not it is ever expressed.
— Thaddeus Golas, The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment
Scientists divide. We discriminate. It is the inevitable occupational hazard of our profession that we must break the world into its constituent parts -- genes, atoms, bytes -- before making it whole again. We know of no other mechanism to understand the world: to create the sum of its parts, we must begin by dividing it into the parts of the sum.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History
I know that no matter how liberal or progressive I profess to be, no matter how successfully, how diligently I seek to be enlightened and nuanced in my understanding of the world and those around me, I know that there still is a tiny, virulent nugget, a germ of prejudice that exists deep within me — the product of those stereotypes and awful jokes of childhood and adolescence, and that it must always be powerfully held at bay by reason, understanding and love.
— Michael Winship