Quotes About Understanding

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.

Script wise, the story of 'Eega' is universal. It's a simple story which everyone can understand.

Your writings should reflect wise thoughts.

In Princess Margaret I found a fine friend who could steady my restless nature and offer wise counsel.

It's not easy to be a good or wise parent. You do the best you can.

I'm always curious what the world is trying to tell story wise.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

A wise man will take a woman's advice even if he doesn't understand it.

A wise man has to know his limitations. I figured that out pretty quickly.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

The person who is truly best suited to us is not the person who shares our tastes, but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently and wisely.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.