Sarah Dessen Quotes

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

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.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

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

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

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

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

I do not feel happy when a collection is understood too well.

In all your getting, get understanding.

Why should things be easy to understand?