Quotes About Understanding

It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do. I will use this to show other people how they can understand each other… as one, we can help society.

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.