Quotes About Understanding

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

it is more accurate and compassionate to understand that both sexes were working to promote life—women risked death to create life; men risked death to protect life.

When you have a Thai girlfriend you never lose her - you just sometimes lose your place in the queue

Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.

In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

A mother is the truest friend we have . . .

He never even talked of love; but there are modes of making it more eloquent than language, and which convey it subtilely and irresistibly to the heart. The beam of the eye, the tone of voice, the thousand tendernesses which emanate from every word and look and action - these form the true eloquence of love, and can always be felt and understood, but never described.

what is it to know a variety of languages, but merely to have a variety of sounds express the same idea? Original thought is ore of the mind; language is but the stamp and coinage by which it is put into circulation.

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.

I seek truth in a book and not the subject.

If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles

To be penitent, to feel sorry for sin, to shed tears, to even make decisions does not bring in salvation. Confession, decision, and many other religious acts can never be and are not to be construed as new birth. Rational judgment, intelligent understanding, mental acceptance, or the pursuit of the good, the beautiful, and the true are merely soulical activities if the spirit is not reached and stirred.

I've heard someone say that faith can be defined as living in advance what you will understand only in reverse.

Why is knowing Him so important to God? Why does He want us to love Him with ever-increasing devotion?

The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Arguing is really saying, "If you were really more like me, then I could like you better.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Polarity damages people. The current atmosphere is saturated with disdain for one another. It's time for a new approach that celebrates our common humanity.

think Jesus taught us that we have a Father who loves us more than we know, and if we could sort that out we would know how to treat each other.

The mind of a Pharisee thinks truth is more important than love, but Jesus showed us that love is the most important part of truth. Adapted from Don Francisco's Pharisiatis Test