Quotes About Understanding

The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.

He who believes needs no explanation.

Let me hold So I can feel Let me see So I can learn Let me be So I can lead

You know you're in love when the most interesting conversation you have with the opposite gender is about the one you claim to be in love with.

Funny how people don't really see each other. Men and women. They invent each other in their minds and then they see what they invent.They don't really see each other. Now she was in love with him and she didn't even know his real name, didn't know anything real about him.

Alex got angry at me because he said I didn't understand how hard it was. And you know what? He was right. I didn't understand. Not then.

Maybe the problem is that you are trying to understand a philosophy instead of trying to get to know a man." I recognized this on the instant as the single smartest thing anyone had ever said to me.

But somehow, after you talked to her for a while, after you got to know her, she started to look really awesome. I thought so anyway. After you found out how warm she was, how kind, how interested she was in what other people had to say. It changed the way she looked . . . I don't really know how to describe it.

Before you lose things, you don't really know you can lose them,

Maybe the problem is that you are trying to understand a philosophy instead of trying to get to know a man.

You can not know the truth about the world until you know God loves you, because that is the truth about the world.

You cannot know the truth about the world until you know God loves you, because that is the truth about the world. In

I bet if you ask them, you'd find out they have moms too. Nicki and Jim. Meredith. They maybe all have moms." "Maybe even you," I said. "Well let's not jump to conclusions," Palmer drawled.

She was—I'm not sure how to best describe it—a receiving presence, not a giving one. You talked to her . She listened. Pretty soon, you found you had told her everything about yourself—and you felt better for it too. She had a wonderful soothing way about her. But she hadn't told you anything, nothing at all.

Knowledge can be acquired systematically, wisdom cannot.

Look with your heart and not with your eyes. The heart understands. The heart never lies. Believe what it feels, and trust what it shows. Look with your heart; the heart always knows. Love is not always beautiful, not at the start. But open your arms, and close your eyes tight. Look with your heart and when it finds love, your heart will be right.

The method of science is logical and rational; the method of the humanities is one of imagination, sympathetic understanding, 'indwelling.

The purpose of theology is to safeguard against misunderstandings that frustrate a Christian life of prayer.

see my work as giving them a voice, a final say. But to do that effectively, you have to learn to stifle the sentiment.

It is not how much we love and appreciate someone, it is how much they know it

The secret for a man trying to understand a woman is to listen to what she means, not what she says.

I do tend to like people in practice, even though I've built an airtight

I wanted to understand her. I wanted her, more dubiously, to understand me .

I just want her to be happy. But I don't think that's what she wants.