Quotes About Understanding

Men are better when riding, more just and more understanding, and more alert and more at ease and more under-taking, and better knowing of all countries and all passages; in short and long all good customs and manners cometh thereof, and the health of man and of his soul.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experience. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

To clarify, *add* data.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.

What he needed Gorham to understand - what his son was heir to - the thing that really mattered - was the New Yorkers indomitable spirit

The fault in his son lay not in his nature, which was honorable, but in his perceptions, which were limited.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

No single person could hope to reproduce this inherited wisom on his own. As Confucius puts it, "I once engaged in thought for an entire day without eating and an entire night without sleeping., but it did no good. It would have been better for me to have spent that time learning." Thinking on one's own might be compared to randomly banging on a piano: a million monkeys given a million years might produce something, but its better to start with Mozart.

The best way to contradict him is to let him talk

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Family systems theory offers therapists an invaluable way of understanding their clients' strengths and problems—clarifying the familial rules, roles, myths, communication patterns, and boundary issues that defined their clients' development.

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

Those raised poorly end up hating their parents. They hate them until they realize... they could not help themselves. Just like us, they fall short. By honoring our parents, we honor the humanity in ourselves, and learn to not only forgive them, but also ourselves for having judged them so harshly.

Who understands fear and trembling? Those who know God. Who doesn't understand fear and trembling? Those who have made themselves God.

Peace without knowledge of the cause of that peace is still ignorance.

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.