Quotes About Understanding

we do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.

Telling puts the other person down. It implies that the other person does not already know what I am telling and that the other person ought to know it.

Remember that the person requesting your help may feel uncomfortable, so make sure to ask what the client really wants and how you can best help.

Gratuitous telling betrays three kinds of arrogance: (1) that you think you know more than the person you're telling, (2) that your knowledge is the correct knowledge, and (3) that you have the right to structure other people's experience for them.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural… We should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

I notice me. I notice you too. And there are simple things that we don't even try anymore. There's a way out of this. Beat the time. And every time I turn around we got some clever way to put each other down.

I'm not aware of too many things. I know what I know if you know what I mean.

But what Ben was doing was different. He wasn't using the information against her. He was merely trying to keep the peace.

what he thought of that.

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

He is not a pleasant person,' I said. 'I don't know what we need him for.' 'You'll just have to learn to get along with him,' my mother replied. We were speaking of her husband, the man she had chosen to father her children.

But you said the words you knew, which were not always the ones you meant.

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart