Quotes About Understanding

It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.

And as we get older, our lenses get more and more narrow and blurrier until we only see our own tiny pin-point view; this limited vision eventually makes bigots of us all. This is why so many marriages fall apart. You meet someone, think that you know them, marry them and then ten years later you divorce them because they turned out not to be who you thought they were. They never were.

Metaphysiker sind Musiker ohne musikalische Fähigkeit.

Think of a world of people born blind who, therefore, know only those objects and relations that exist through the sense of touch. Go among them, and speak to them of colors and the other relations that exist only through light and for the sense of sight. You will convey nothing to their minds, and this will be the more fortunate if they tell you so, for you will then quickly notice your mistake and, if unable to open their eyes, you will cease talking in vain . . . .

If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force.

It does not matter if what I think differs from what the other person thinks. What matters is that, as a result of what I can contribute to the conversation, the other discovers what is right out of themselves.

Pro ?lovÄ›ka je dokonce velmi Å¡patné, nem?že-li pÃ…â"¢istupovat k záhadÄ› bytí nejprve citem. Je proto nutné, aby vychovatel mÄ›l pro vÅ¡echny pÃ…â"¢írodní zákony a tajemství svÄ›ta k dispozici podobenství.

Chápání v pojmech by mÄ›lo být v jistém smÄ›ru ?erpáno z nashromáždÄ›ného pokladu pamÄ›ti. ÄŒím více ví mladý ?lovÄ›k z pamÄ›ti pÃ…â"¢ed pojmovým chápáním, tím lépe... Není jistÄ› tÃ…â"¢eba výslovnÄ› dovozovat, že toto platí jen pro vÄ›k, o nÄ›mž je tu Ã…â"¢e? (7 až 14 let), nikoli pro pozdÄ›jÅ¡í dobu.

for anyone else until you have wisely and effectively understood and undertaken to change yourself?

for how can you become wise and effective for anyone else until you have wisely and effectively understood and undertaken to change yourself?

It is easy to decide what men ought to be; but the student works in the depths, not on the surface.

Why are they like that?' I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek. 'I don't know,' Cico answered, 'except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem to want to hurt each other - and it's worse when they're in a group.

It was very sad to see my father cry, but I understood it, because sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.

I think most of the things we call evil are not evil at all; it is just that we don't understand those things, and so we call them evil. And we fear evil only because we do not understand it.

I think most of the things we call evil are not evil at all; it is just that we don't understand those things and so we call them evil. And we fear evil only because we do not understand it. - Gabriel Marez

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth!

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, -- which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man.

It isn't what you say so much. It's what you mean when you say it.

To hear is one thing, to know is another.

And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who see and are silent!

Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.