Category: Quotes about understanding

Any fool can know. The point is to understand

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do

I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on

When you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you

You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…