Understanding Quotes

She had never understood either of the men she had loved and so she had lost them both. Now, she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

Demons I get. People are crazy.

Supernatural

Season 1

Episode 15

Dean Winchester

human, people

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

Albert Einstein

explanation

Of course, sometimes it's not about the words... it's just about having someone there to listen.

Knowing the wrongs couldn’t alter them.

Knowledge and awareness are vague.

A very strange thing is when your charm ceases... and, for one reason or another, you become gloomy. And people cease to understand you when you need understanding the most.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

"Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you. And because we know each other."

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

sympathy

They say that we should love ourselves first, before other people learn to love us, but it’s not as easy as it seems. Sometimes, we need someone to accept us and love us first, then we would learn to see ourselves through that person’s eyes and learn to love our-self.

The person you understand the least is yourself.

What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

Diary

lack of understanding

Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

Jane Ostin

Sense and sensibility

rapport, mutual understanding

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

world

strength

“Atticus, he was real nice..." <...>
"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."

A person is not able to understand a person, people should not try to understand each other — I realized this only after death. It is cruel — this life.