Quotes About Understanding

With malice toward none; with charity for all.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

I disagree with you, but I recognize the integrity of your argument. I recognize your moral responsibility.

Interpret the new situation in the best light.

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

The word 'love' is a fucked up word that's been used and abused so much it no longer means shit. The same thing is true about 'beauty.' 'Beauty' doesn't mean anything anymore. Idots use the word, and look at what they use it for. Nothing! Anything! If you ever become educated, and I doubt if that will ever happen, you will have to understand that most of what you will learn is going to be just a lot of shit.

People who have the ability to hear, I mean with their inner being, souls, wisdom, are the only ones who can grasp the...things that remain out of sight.

like two children who had, for the first time, discovered someone who shared their thoughts...

If you are capable of hearing, listen.

We know so many things that remain out of sight

Takes one motherfucker to know another.

When a group of friends have enjoyed fine conversation together, you will find that uddenly omething extraordinary happen . A they are peaking, it' a if a park ignite , pa ing from one peaker to another, and a it travel , it gather trength, building into a warm and illuminating flame of mutual under tanding which none of them could have achieved alone. SOCRATES, IN PLATO'S "CRITIAS

Socrates immersed himself in the cutting-edge intellectual work of his day, then transcended it. He took advantage of the fact that the most exciting thinkers in the Western world were drawn to Athens. He sought them out, learned what they had to teach, then challenged what he had learned to enhance his own understanding.

Questions can excite, disturb, discipline, or comfort, but they always stimulate inquiry.

Effective leaders are skilled at asking carefully worded questions, guiding people to greater understanding of issues and problems until appropriate solutions become obvious. By guiding people to think things through for themselves, the (Socratic) leader encourages shared pride and ownership of the solutions generated.

Sade never understood how exceptional he was in not feeling frightened of freedom.

Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

All have validity in the present, and to call anyone wrong for using any one of them would be to reveal oneself as bereft of general knowledge and courtesy, as well as scholarship.

Our argument is simple: A Christian who supports Trump either does not understand this person and his positions, or supports him in spite of their Christian convictions.

No one will see our Jesus if they can't see past our blind allegiance to a man who is nothing like him.

To the extent that we can be precise about exactly where we disagree, we can make more progress in overcoming our differences.

And then Ehrlich's climax: "Let there be light. Let there be honesty. Let there be no running from nonexistent destroyers of morals. Let there be honest understanding. In the end the four-letter words will not appear draped in glaring headlights, but will be submerged in the decentralization of small thinking in small minds.

We are the result of the universe attempting to understand itself