Quotes about Understanding

She sat beside him in the car, feeling no desire to speak, knowing that neither of them could conceal the meaning of their silence.

Reason functions by integrating perceptual data into concepts.

in the wisdom of women the Golden One had understood more than we can understand.

He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood.

Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality.

He stood looking straight at her. Their understanding was too offensively intimate, because they had never said a word to each other.

He could not condemn them without understanding; and he could not understand. Did he like them? No, he thought; he had wanted to like them, which was not the same. He had wanted it in the name of some unstated potentiality which he had once expected to see in any human being. He felt nothing for them now, nothing but the merciless zero of indifference, not even the regret of a loss.

She realized that she had always felt a sense of light-hearted relaxation in his presence and known that he shared it. He was the only man she knew to whom she could speak without strain or effort. This, she thought, was a mind she respected, an adversary worth matching.

When Helen's father compliments Annie on the fact that she has taught Helen the rudiments of discipline, Annie, discouraged, answers: ". . . to do nothing but obey is—no gift, obedience without understanding is a—blindness, too.

Its the critic's job to interpret the artist, even to the artist himself.

The men who now sat in front of his desk had been taught that the law of causality was a superstition and that one had to deal with the situation of the moment without considering its cause.

Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you — except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize.