Quotes About Understanding

No one manages until he or she has "walked in the shoes" of those being managed.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

To know a little about a lot.

Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

In the words of the Cambridge don Roger Ascham, Elizabeth I's tutor, one should "speak as the common people do…think as wise men do." Thomas

It seems better to me, if it seems so to you, that we…should translate certain books, which are most necessary for all men to know, into the language that we can all understand, and…that all the young freeborn men…may be set to study…until a time when they are able to read English writing well.

The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly "Oh master," he was asked, "what is the most difficult thing to do?" "To know thyself", he replied. "And the easiest?" "To give advice to others.

Prior to my breakdown I went through a 5 week manic phase, with increasing mental excitation, decreasing sleep, and a near certainty that I wa sthe first person to actually understand what Ludwig Wittgenstein was actually saying.

and straightforward language. The researchers concluded that when the witness spoke simply the jurors could evaluate his argument on its merits. But when he was unintelligible, they had to resort to the mental shortcut of accepting his title and reputation in lieu of comprehensible facts. And so, another paradox: experts are sometimes most convincing when we don't understand what they're talking about.

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.

Ne raillons pas les fous; leur folie dure plus longtemps que la nôtre... Voila toute la différence.

a preliminary sketch. Your experience tells you that. But

This man has been disagreeable to you, and I want to tell you that any time you feel inclined to kick him, why, I will hold the other creature.

To people who were not seen or were misunderstood as children, the experience of being seen as a person can be very moving, tantamount to a spiritual experience.

toward my children, but I know that was

The doctrine of the Trinity is the Christian church's answer to the question, How does truth hang together? And how may it be grasped as one?

Doctors think they are more important in their patients' lives than their patients do.

Patients possess a body of knowledge about themselves that we can never hope to master, and we have a body of knowledge about medicine that they can never hope to master. Our job is to bring these two groups together so we can serve each other well.

If we go into the visit with both parties knowing what's going on, then we can spend the visit talking about what we do about it.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.