Quotes About Understanding

We all understand in theory that we should be able to love and respect those with whom we disagree, but few of us can do so. Often, people end up concluding that there is something deficient either in the intelligence or character of those with whom they disagree. Quite characteristically, this is what liberals and conservatives commonly think of each other, that their opponent has something wrong either with his head or his heart.

sinat chinam, causeless hatred

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

What really makes us is beyond grasping. It's way beyond knowing. We give in to love... because it gives us some sense of what is unknowable. Nothing else matters, not at the end.

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.

Gay men know that the way to a woman's heart is through her son.

Do not underestimate the role you may play in clearing the obstacles in someone's spiritual journey.

Only when people genuinely disagree does tolerance become necessary. Claiming that someone is wrong for holding a different viewpoint, then, isn't itself intolerant; the attitude that accompanies the claim may, however, be intolerant.

All books have to be researched, but readable books have their research buried.

Knowledge has no significance [...] unless it is transformative.

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

Why do we have two ears and one mouth? In order to talk half as much as we listen.

When I say, 'I love you,' it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a person.

You are talking crazy-person talk. Put your words in word places please.

Anya: I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she's- There's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore. It's stupid. It's mortal and stupid. And-and Xander's crying and not talking, and-and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why.

When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'.

To forgive is an act of compassion... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.

Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.

Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man.

I've Got Him! You've got to keep at her. Forget all your training--she's fought you a thousand times. Don't presume to run my team, you little tart- (Colossus throws Emma at Danger) Yes. I see how it works. Normally, I wouldn't have done that.

Don't go bigger, go deeper.

Contradiction is the seed of conciousness. I knew, from the pain of contradiction, that I was. And what I was.

In a way, we [poets] are listeners. I go to poetry because I don't have the words." —

All cultures and peoples turn to poetry during times of celebration, transformation and challenge—those times when ordinary language cannot carry meaning beyond our understanding.