Quotes About Understanding

That's what I love doing - understanding another person's perspective that's really different from mine. To me, it's like an emotional puzzle, trying to figure out the humanity of a character who is very different from myself and why they think the way they do.

To approach a poem as if it is a puzzle to be understood is to miss the point.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

People's intolerance, I find puzzling.

You can disagree with somebody and still think they're qualified.

Just because you've seen 'My Cousin Vinny' doesn't qualify you to be a federal judge.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.

One of the great qualities we have is forgiveness.

About all that is needed to put the world on its feet are the right qualities of mind and heart on the part of all men.

I know my qualities.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.

I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.

People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.

I think one of my best qualities is my ability to empathize with people. Perhaps it's because my journey has been so bumpy.

People use the 'love' word too early. When you've got that trust thing locked down, when you've lived together, and you know each other's good and bad qualities inside out, at that moment, you know if you truly love someone.

In this family, we don't see color or preference, we see qualities and hearts.

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

I think a beautiful quality that's a biological, hormonal imperative for women, whether they have children or not, is that we're built to be empathic. For me, it was finally being maternal in an appropriate way instead of trying to mommy ex-boyfriends.

Number is different from quantity.

To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.

The more you study quantum mechanics, the more crazy and incomprehensible it becomes. You truly do need a Ph.D. in very high level math and science to understand it at a high, high level.