Quotes of: Understanding Keyword

If I follow a particular method of knowing myself, then I shall have the result which that system necessitates; but the result will obviously not be the understanding of myself.

The First and Last Freedom

But things change, people change - as do perceptions of people, and now I answer in a language that I hope my teenage self will understand.

The First Last Kiss

you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it

The Five People You Meet in Heaven [Paperback]

I'm a Helian, and you're an Arcan. We're just made that way. I don't think we would ever be able to really understand each other.

Fire

I didn't really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.

Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died.

The Fault in Our Stars

You don’t understand; this girl’s different. She’s beautiful, kind, giving, sweet, strong, stubborn, and quite a smart ass.” Connor Black's thoughts on Ellery Lane

Forever You

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

The God Delusion

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

The God Delusion

You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might.

Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude

And I still don't understand the purpose of a wedding. What could possibly induce two free beings to partner only with each other for the rest of their existence?

The Golem and the Jinni

Don't you understand? I want to spend my life with you. I want you to be there when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.

Glitch

For years, I believed that God had been in motion on rare occasions and during biblical times, but I didn't understand that God never stops working on my behalf.

God in Motion

Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and brutal it can be?

A Girl Like Me

The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy – it is already too late for that – but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.

Game Management

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

Grendel

In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.

Heaven In The Meat Packing District

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

People’s lives can become quite difficult when they don’t understand that the spirit that lives in them...lives in all of us. Humanity...we are one☺

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't understand about us all. p 60

The Aviator's Wife

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms