Quotes About Understanding

A înv??a nu înseamn? a È™ti. Exist? È™tiutori È™i exist? savanÈ›i: pe unii îi face memoria, pe alÈ›ii filozofia.

Il n'y a que les méchants qui nient l'amitié, parce qu'ils ne la comprennent pas.

A woman's eye can read the face of the man she loves, its every feeling of pride, its every expression of suffering; it might almost be said that Heaven has graciously granted to women, on account of their very weakness, more than it has accorded to other creatures.

Et parfois, en se rencontrant, nos regards avaient une éloquence qui palliait la retenue de nos discours.

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.

Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

A proposition must be plain to be adopted by the understanding of a people. A false notion which is clear and precise will always meet with a greater number of adherents in the world than a true principle which is obscure or involved.

In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.

How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

This quote begins here. A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. This quote ends here.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

We learn in friendship to look with the eyes of another person, to listen with her ears, and to feel with her heart.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

No, no. No lo entiendes. Nadie quiere ser ganado. Queremos ser deseados, necesitados»

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance

Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.

The map is not the territory.

The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.