Quotes about Understanding

Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.

I'm scared of him, said Piggy, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again, it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

But nobody else understands about the fire. If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take you'll die - you would, wouldn't you?

There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.

What's in a book is not what the author put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it.

All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry Help!

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.

Knowledge about a thing is not the thing itself.

No one of us ought to issue vetoes to the other, nor should we bandy words of abuse.

Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.

As our hearts become pure, our vision becomes clearer.