Quotes about Understanding

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.

We can only know and understand ourselves fully through others — through the way we experience others and ourselves in relation to others, and the way others experience us.

The path that leads through Latin and alebra is not the path to material success. But it may suggest much more: that understanding things is a waste of time; that if you want to succeed in the world and have a happy family and a nice home and a BMW you should not try to understand things but just add up the numbers or press the buttons or do whatever else it is that marketers are so richly rewarded for doing.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness...

Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness...

To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

When I got better I realized what a rat he was, but then I had to understand the impossible complexity of his life, how he had to leave me there, sick, to get on with his wives and woes.

Nonetheless we understood each other on other levels of madness...

This is the way I like it, when you get going there's just no need to talk, as if we were animals and just communicated by silent telepathy