Quotes about Understanding
If he be a stranger in the world, that knows not the things that are in it; why not be a stranger as well, that wonders at the the things that are done in it?
— Marcus Aurelius
Accustom yourself to attend closely to what is said by others, and as far as possible to penetrate into the mind of the speaker.
— Marcus Aurelius
n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self......
— Cicero
This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.
— Margaret Atwood
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.
— Margaret Atwood
Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.
— Margaret Atwood
We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
— Margaret Atwood
I would never blame a human creature for feeling lonely.
— Margaret Atwood
Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.
— Margaret Atwood
As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. If it is face to face, there must be two looking.
— Margaret Atwood
She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are: Where have you been all my life? they ask. Where have I been all my life? she replies.
— Margaret Atwood
Nobody's heart is perfect.
— Margaret Atwood