Category: Quotes about understanding

Sometimes it’s better to keep silent than to tell others what you feel because it will only hurt you when you know they can hear you but they can’t understand

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed, by the masses

“When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself

There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand without you even speaking a word

When you’re happy, you enjoy the music. But when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination

Friendship isn’t how you forget, but how you forgive. Not how you listen, but how you understand. Not how you see, but how you feel. Friendship is not how you let go, but how you hold on

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it

Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize, just as I did, that there’s a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path

I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress

I could never understand ethnic or national pride. Because to me, pride should be reserved for something you achieve or attain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn’t a skill, it’s a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn’t say “I’m proud to be 5’11”. I’m proud to have a predisposition for colon cancer.” So why the fuck would you be proud to be Irish, or proud to be Italian, or American or anything?

Morality is doing what’s right regardless of what you’re told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right

A HEART dies when it is not able to share its FEELINGS…, But a HEART Kills itself when another Heart does not Understands its Feelings

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn

The secret of being Happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day

Just because my eyes don’t tear doesn’t mean my heart doesn’t cry. And just because I come off strong, doesn’t mean there’s nothing wrong

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding

I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and – in some mysterious way – significant

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you

Some people think to be STRONG is to never feel PAIN. In reality, the STRONGEST people are who feel it, understand it and accept it