Quotes About Understanding

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

Sometimes people just need to be heard. They find happiness in sharing their thoughts.

In my teaching, I enjoyed creating models to clearly communicate my thoughts.

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.

If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.

Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's.

Loving isn't finding perfection, but forgiving horrible faults.

those who truly know, knows those who don't, will learn if they ask

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.

No one said anything; they didn't need to. That's what it's like between best friends. Sometimes you just know what each other's thinking. You don't always have to say it.