Quotes about Understanding

What if the purpose of human charity wasn't to protect the weak -- which seems pretty anti-Darwinian anyway -- but to preserve the mad? Don't they get special treatment in most primitive societies? ( . . .) You have to be careful about who you do away with. It could be that some part of our understanding comes in vessels incapable of sustaining themselves. What do you think? Maybe you'd have to be crazy to think that.

The lesson of a life can never be its own. Only the witness has power to take its measure. It is lived for the other only.

He said that the world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them and therefore to know it one must look there and come to know those hearts and to do this one must live with men and not simply pass among them.

People from the other side will seem odd to you. And you will never understand the latitude which they extend to you.

Bright people often have a good load to carry. But boredom is seldom a part of it. It's all right. I'm always pleased to see just that small bit deeper. You deny our brotherhood. Insisting as you do in your sly way that our genealogies and our socioeconomic standings have set us apart at birth in a manner not to be contravened. But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

He said that if a person understood the soul of the horse then he would understand all horses that ever were.

You will see. It is difficult even for brothers to travel together on such a voyage. The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time line. While it's never too late for revenge.

A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.

You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised, said Blevins.

You think sometimes I dont listen. I think you listen. I'm not so sure what you hear.

If they'd thought a bit more about biological evolution and spent less time cooking up nutty theories they might have uncovered a few simple truths.