Quotes About Understanding

Nothing is about honest disagreement; it is all about your interlocutor's lack of basic human decency.

Rule 3. Say no to contempt. Treat others with love and respect, even when it's difficult.

I must come back to a point I have made repeatedly: never treat others with contempt, even if you believe they deserve it.

Rule 4. Disagree better. Be part of a healthy competition of ideas.

The secret to happiness isn't falling in love; it's staying in love, which depends on what psychologists call "companionate love"—love based less on passionate highs and lows and more on stable affection, mutual understanding, and commitment.

Bridging, like warm-heartedness, takes courage.

You know what our world needs: more love, less contempt.

Rule 3. Never assume the motives of another person.

When I call for a standard of love, I am asking us all to listen to our hearts, of course. But also to think clearly, look at the facts, and do difficult things when necessary, so that we can truly lift people up and bring them together.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his joyful essay "Friendship," I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts? I chide society, I embrace solitude, and yet I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely, and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate. Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine—a possession for all time. An

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

Science is the only religion of mankind.

Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

"Excellent!" I [Watson] cried."Elementary," said he [Holmes].

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.