Quotes About Understanding

How can we be afraid of those we love? It was a question that puzzled me then, and puzzles me still.

It's funny how some miles seem longer than others. It depends on what you are thinking about, I suppose. What you are thinking and what I am thinking. If our thoughts agree, the miles are not so long. We get on better when we are thinking together than when we are talking together.

Lessons learned are not lessons learned unless you learn them.

The children who need love the most will always ask for it in the most unloving ways

The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways.

The less we understand a phenomenon, the more variables we require to explain it.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike.

One hates a person for the same reason one loves him 

If you yourself are not a victim, you cannot claim to see the world as the victim does.

So by being offended you've sorta acknowledged that you are thick, and none of us are, so we're all back on speaking terms!

I have mo prejudice against the Southern people... They are just what we would ben in their situation. If slavery did not now exits amongst them, they wld not inrtoduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up... I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. (p52)

If you know what people need you have gotten more knowledge of a fortune than any amount of capital can give you.

The fundamentally important issue in the design of constitutions is to enable rather than hinder economic transitions that are not well understood in advance.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

But wisdom is not got through shouting-matches within one generation.

I don't believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God's way of communicating with us.

Steven wrote to me today, saying, 'Don't you feel like sticking your head out of the window and yelling, "I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!!!"' Yes, absolutely. Solidarity. Fear is always the same. Different worries with different scripts, but the same baseline fear.

In a quarrel, leave room for reconciliation.

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

He judged people by himself - and they weren't that way. That was his one mistake. Hilter judges people by himself, too. He succeeds because they are that way.

If someone can handle you at your worst, they'll stick around for your best.

The best friends are those you can argue with but love anyway.

They see you at your worst and don't run away. If someone can handle you at your worst, they'll stick around for your best.