Quotes About Understanding

Bakhtin knew that only those who had witnessed carnivalesque resistance could really understand one another, even if they were separated by centuries. And he knew all too well, as anyone who witnessed the joyful resistance movements of the early twenty-first century did, that mass laughter leaves a permanent mark on your soul, even after the resistance falls apart, changing the very fabric of all who participated in it.

Alle 30 Jahre kippt die Sprache vollständig um. Die Kommunikation zwischen den Generationen wird dann unmöglich.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.

Sometimes I think if you didn't have me, there wouldn't be a single person in the world who really understood you...

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

It is one broken person talking to another broken person. And there is power in that.

Here's a lesson for you, Sonny: Don't write if you can talk, don' talk if you can nod your head, don't nod if you don't have to

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.

There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love and the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence. - Gaston Berger

Buddhism is best understood as a philosophy rather than a religion due to the fact that the Buddhist does not necessarily embrace a God.

None of the illustrations, observations, or details that secularists present are necessary for the task of understanding and helping people. We already have all we need – the authoritative, indispensable, perspicuous, sufficient, and superior revelation of God in His Word (Isaiah 8:19-20). Why, then, would any Christian think that we must turn to extrabiblical theories or the practices of men for understanding and promoting change in people?

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

It's not an exclamation point. There are no interjections in mathematics.

Culturally appropriate evangelism answers the actual questions being asked by a given culture rather than those questions the church believes the culture should ask.

If we are to begin to push back against this, we have to understand how meditating on God's Word is central to worldview formation.

Scripture: inputting spiritual/gospel truth

A great barrier in finding God is impatience. We soon learn spiritual attainment must be earned. Understanding of God constantly enlarges so we never reach perfection.

whats intelegnece without wisdom

simple conveying of information to rational people.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

But with dogs, we do have "bad dog." Bad dog exists. "Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!" The dog is saying, "Who are you to judge me? You human beings who've had genocide, war against people of different creeds, colors, religions, and I stole a biscuit?! Is that a crime? People of the world!" "Well, if you put it that way, I think you've got a point. Have another biscuit, sorry.

Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!

You've got your answer then, haven't you?' Lydia nods. She has. She knew it all along. But sometimes it takes an artificially intelligent simulation of a long dead Beatle to put things in perspective.