Rebecca Stead Quotes

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

There are many things that I don't understand.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.

Things aren't black and white in the world.

I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc.

Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

"And" seems to me closest. "And" nods toward the real. And "and" is the path to perspective. To feel and see from more angles and know all of them true, even the incomprehensible ones, even the ones that contradict one another.

You can't see the forest for the trees.