Quotes About Understanding

ALWAYS FULL OF QUESTIONS...How many times must I tell you, better to listen than to talk. But you're always talking...asking useless things...whatever for?" "Because I want to know.

Instead of putting people in boxes, we need to stop and listen to their stories.

Grandma laughed. "You'd be surprised. It's awfully hard to dislike someone when you really pray for them. In fact the person you pray for could turn out to be one of your best friends.

An empathy wall is an obstacle to deep understanding of another person, one that can make us feel indifferent or even hostile to those who hold different beliefs or whose childhood is rooted in different circumstances.

Our polarization, and the increasing reality that we simply don't know each other, makes it too easy to settle for dislike and contempt.

We, on both sides, wrongly imagine that empathy with the "other" side brings an end to clearheaded analysis when, in truth, it's on the other side of that bridge that the most important analysis can begin.

An empathy wall is an obstacle to deep understanding of another person, one that can make us feel indifferent or even hostile to those who hold different beliefs or whose childhood is rooted in different circumstances. In a period of political tumult, we grasp for quick certainties. We

the more that people confine themselves to likeminded company, the more extreme their views become.

The English language doesn't give us many words to describe the feeling of reaching out to someone from another world, and of hav- ing that interest welcomed. Something of its own kind, mutual, is created. What a gift.

An empathy wall is an obstacle to deep understanding of another person, one that can make us feel indifferent or even hostile to those who hold different beliefs or whose childhood is rooted in different circumstances. In

poseía un conocimiento más completo de los resortes de la Naturaleza que su amigo.

Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.

I don't see myself very clearly. Then look at the people who love you...Look into their eyes and see what they're seeing; that's all you need to know yourself.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.

Whatever cannot be seen, conceived at once, thru simple reasoning is humbug, and not science!

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

If we do not know or even want to know the aims that the artist was pursuing through his work – his aim to inform, to convince, to influence people – then we do not get much farther in understanding his art than the ignorant spectator who judges a football game simply by the beauty of the players' movement.

I think that both camps are guilty of underestimating the challenge of arriving at economic understanding. Those economists who claim the mantle of science are guilty of hubris. Noneconomists who think that their own intuition is superior to economic reasoning are dangerously misguided.