There are things known—things experienced, felt, and understood—that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice.

Why should things be easy to understand?

I doubt even you can begin to understand the depths of her.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our...

I can relate to Marguerite Duras even though I’m not French, nor have I been consumed by love for an East Asian man. I can life inside Alice Munro’s skin. But I can’t relate to...

The less people know, the more they talk. The less people understand, the more they try to explain.

Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.

Quand celui à qui l’on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c’est de la métaphysiqueWhen he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does...

Certain things are extremely difficult to understand, such as the concept of unconditional love, perhaps it is due to mislead thoughts about God’s love for us. Assuming that we can say or do certain things...

I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside.I don’t believe I exist behind myself.

Alex got angry at me because he said I didn’t understand how hard it was. And you know what? He was right. I didn’t understand. Not then.

If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood...

I would like to believe he’s sick rather than just mean and evil.

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we’re given.

The small smiles everybody wanted to try to figure out – they meant nothing, really. She wasn’t so good at talking and the smiles made up for it. They filled the spaces in which she...

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology...

Love is the reason why, in confusion, we understand.

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin to feel it.

The only way to reach an understanding and to get out of the current situation is talks.

The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to...

Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene...

Wisdom keeps us from making foolish mistakes.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.

The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on...

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man’s origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

There might not be a lot of people who can understand you and the way you think, don’t lose your temper and don’t get sad, because you are destined to mark a new path.

He has a master understanding of holding a crowd and taking them places: high, low and everywhere in between, … He knows how long he can hold them before they go over the edge, and...

Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist.

You’d be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don’t understand your own capacities.

None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

Tidak selamanya kata kata indah itu benar, dan kata kata menyakitkan itu salah, jadi pahami dan mengertilah.

Falling in love… how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going. It was the...

Let us listen to others, put across our views, do away with discord and enhance mutual understanding.

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

For days and weeks on end one racks one’s brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether one goes on writing purely out of habit, or a craving for admiration, or...

Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to...

The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them–when they feel understood by you–that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of an argument, to consider, not what is true, but what is convenient.

..i spill intothe kind of silenceonly Khalil Gibran would understand.

I don’t believe that,” I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. “I never asked you to.” (Jessica)

You’re going to come across some truly gifted people in your lifetime that seem to know all the answers. However, they lost their personal relationship with God, along the way. Love them anyways, and do...

Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word ‘understanding.

In my opinion, at least, the splendid achievements of Alexander are the clearest possible proof that neither strength of body, nor noble blood, nor success in war even greater than Alexander’s own… that none of...

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!