Quotes of: Greater-understanding Keyword

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understand and I believe you.

A Separate Peace

You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance.

Splintered

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.

The Sun Watches the Sun

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

Solid Ground: Buddhist Wisdom for Difficult Times

Sometimes the greatest gift you can give someone who needs comfort is empathy from a heart that understands.

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

This is so weird. They're your brother and aunt." "No, I understand. They're your family too." Rhys said. "They loved you and raised you. That's what family is, right?

Switched

I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

Sweet Bird of Youth

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.

Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About

Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.

Twenty Years After

The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice.

The Twelve Gifts of Birth

… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.

A Time of Change

Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [...] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.

A Theory of Fun for Game Design

What many refer to as intuition, then, is not the untaught or unteachable but instead is a learned understanding and respect of process, molded by experience and refined over a great deal of time and practice.

Thoughts on Interaction Design

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

Thirst

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.

To Take Away the Hurt: Insights into Healing

Without setbacks and mistakes, no experience. Without experience, no learning. And without learning, you’ll never truly understand the awakening of your heart’s desires.

One Less. One More.

When you don’t understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own.

One-Minute Insights for Men

Your mail could've waited." Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?" Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn't heart books didn't understand.

Onyx

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

Orthodoxy