Quotes About Understanding

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely -- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

If I can help Americans to understand China, and the Chinese to learn about the United States, even a little, I will feel very rewarded. I

I no longer worried that she was a landlord's wife. She was my grandmother.

I believe that the more we understand about how our hemispheres work together to create our perception of reality, then the more successful we will be in understanding the natural gifts of our own brains, as well as more effectively help people recover from neurological trauma.

value by never saying "me too" or showing their vulnerable underbelly.

Hate people on an individual basis only - you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.

That's a rare thing: to love someone, not for how you think of them, but for how they think of themselves.

You know how I used to joke that your mother had three thousand six hundred and twenty-two feelings and I had the requisite five basic ones which have an evolutionary purpose? Because, quite frankly, most of the time I didn't know what the bloody hell she was on about? Well, since coming round from surgery I'm finding myself having others, another . . . perhaps the sixth emotion.

You can't just love bits of someone. All of me, why not take all of me----isn't that what the song says? I know exactly how bad Tony can be and well, if he can love me like he does, despite my faults, well... I can do the same for him.

Know your buyer's journey so you can align with it.

Insightful questions build credibility and deepen relationships.

understanding history as a form of inquiry—not as something easy or comforting but as something demanding and exhausting—was central to the nation's founding.

To study the past is to unlock the prison of the present.

The spiders, honeybees, yellow jackets, and mud daubers: these insects still speak - a language that is older than humans. The buffalo, elk, wolf, coyote -they still talk too. It's we, the people, who have forgotten how to listen. [Osage Spider Story, an Osage Legend, told by Archie Mason, Jr]

Metaphor is the literal language of the soul. Poets do not try "to think up metaphors." They are not interested in making up riddles for the rest of us to figure out. They think in metaphors.

And may God better understand and love us, than we, in our weakness, can do him.

Experience is something you get… after you need it.

It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.

Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels

But at a moment when I needed such interaction

Then one day, I just let it go, and started thinking about the essay as not trying to solve a riddle of why, but as a way of understanding what was changed by my fear, and what that change revealed about my experience of seventh grade.