“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
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Quotes about understanding
“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, or with somebody who understands.”
“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. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.”
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
“When you’re struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it’s just as hard as what you’re going through.”
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
“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 was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
“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 often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.”
“You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”