Quotes About Understanding

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

It's what you do when you grow up, apparently, face up to things you'd rather not and accept the fact that nobody is who you thought they were, maybe not even close.

I don't understand you. I can't treat myself like a hurdy-gurdy from which I can take out an unpopular piece and put in a tune that everybody is whistling.

We cannot erase the past, but we can adjust our present to the lessons history teaches. Instead of denying or condemning old offenses, we should seek to understand them. We must not allow injustices to recur out of ignorance or wishful thinking.

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

As to the members of a Democracy, they are the best sort of people in the world; but then they are but a puny sort of gentry, as to strength, put them all together; and apt to be a little defective in point of understanding.

Never speak more clearly than you think.

I felt myself becoming angry too easily. I once saw a couple at a restaurant, and I could tell from their mannerisms that they were having some type of disagreement. I got mad at the guy and wanted to tell him, "Come on – appreciate your wife!

She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider.

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

Heads and hearts are connected.

What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?

The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

During this investigation, I became familiar with certain limits of the rational gaze. It tends to fragment reality and to exclude complementarity and the association of contraries from it's field of vision...The rational approach starts from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

This is an old problem: Knowledge calls for more knowledge,

One thing became clear as I thought back to my stay in Quirishari. Every time I had doubted one of my consultants' explanations, my understanding of the Ashaninca view of reality had seized up; conversely, on the rare occasions that I had managed to silence my doubts, my understanding of local reality had been enhanced — as if there were times when one had to believe in order to see, rather than the other way around.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Look with great forgiveness upon the weakness of others.

Love permits and even respects dissent: Authoritarianism does not. Everybody should learn the difference.

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

I'm more of a dog person. But I admire cats and their ability to take so much while giving so little.

It's not our ability to get forgiveness that saves us. It's out ability to grant forgiveness

For a short time, we'd become each other, a little. Maybe that's what people do when they fall in love, mind, body, and soul. Or maybe we were just weird.