Quotes about Understanding

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know.

Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.) And so the boy

Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't some long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension between here and now, where thinking and time cuts out. If you won't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity is right here and now is the function of life.

The boy answers, Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt. Indra says, I ask. Teach. (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.

Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.

He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it.

Peter exercised a zeal which was unregulated by knowledge.

Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.