Quotes about Understanding

To begin with, I ran my eye up and down the page. I am going to get the hang of her sentences first, I said, before I load my memory with blue eyes and brown and the relationship that there may be between Chloe and Roger. There will be time for that when I have decided whether she has a pen in her hand or a pickaxe.

He's read nothing, thought nothing, felt nothing, he could hear her saying in that empathic voice which carried so much farther than she knew.

It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for. Reality dwelling in what one saw and felt, but did not talk about, one could accept a system in which things went round and round quite satisfactorily to other people, without often troubling to think about it, except as something superficially strange.

The weight, the pace, the stride of a man's mind are too unlike her own for her to lift anything substantial from him successfully. The ape is too distant to be sedulous.

To perceive things in the germ is intelligence.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

He who knows others is learned; He who knows himself is wise.

It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate

God had not turned a deaf ear. He had been waiting for her to listen, as He always did.

We never argue anymore. And when we do, it never lasts more than a week or two.

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.