Quotes About Understanding

More wives could keep their husbands if they realized their greatest urge is to be men.

Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country—to clear the air of the racial mirages, clichés, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.

To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth, must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything

To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth, must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

I had learned early one important thing, and that was to always teach in terms that the people could understand.

I have since learned—helping me to understand what then began to happen within me—that the truth can be quickly received, or received at all, only by the sinner who knows and admits that he is guilty of having sinned much. Stated another way: only guilt admitted accepts truth. The Bible again: the one people whom Jesus could not help were the Pharisees; they didn't feel they needed any help.

One day, I remember, a dirty glass of water was on a counter and Mr. Muhammad put a clean glass of water beside it. "You want to know how to spread my teachings?" he said, and he pointed to the glasses of water. "Don't condemn if you see a person has a dirty glass of water," he said, "just show them the clean glass of water that you have. When they inspect it, you won't have to say that yours is better.

I want to say before I go on that I have never previously told anyone my sordid past in detail. I haven't done it now to sound as though I might be proud of how bad, how evil, I was. But people are always speculating – why am I as I am? To understand that of any person his whole life, from birth, must be reviewed. All of our experiences fused into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient

I do my best to avoid speaking for her. She scares me when she's pissed.

para bem conhecer o caráter do povo, é preciso ser príncipe e, para bem entender o do príncipe, é preciso ser do povo.

Marc Aronson

Wer nicht weiß, was die Welt ist, der weiß auch nicht, wo er lebt. Wer aber den Zweck ihres Daseins nicht kennt, der weiß weder, wer er selbst, noch was die Welt ist. Wem aber eins von diesen Stücken fehlt, der kann auch wohl seine eigene Bestimmung nicht angeben. In welchem Lichte erscheint dir nun ein Mensch, welcher um den lauten Beifall derer buhlt, die nicht wissen, wo, noch wer sie selbst sind?

Die Menschen sind für einander geboren. Also belehre oder dulde sie!

Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand the language of feelings, and that's why we form deep and enduring social bonds with many other beings. Emotions are the glue that binds.

Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them less than us.

Her silence is mine.

Hubris. Blindness. Shame. These are the minions of darkness. Lesser agents to anger, fear and hate. But agents all the same. He has allowed them to enter his thoughts but has refused to face them. To face his greatest failure . But for a Jedi, failure is the greatest teacher . Forgiveness is the path to strength. Understanding is the path to peace. And in that peace… is the power to move mountains .

Si l'enfant que tu étais rencontrait l'homme que tu es devenu, crois-tu qu'ils s'entendraient bien ensemble, qu'ils pourraient être complices ?

C'est ça être un ami, non ? Savoir deviner quand l'autre vous dit le contraire de ce qu'il pense au fond de lui.

I mean what I say when i say it. After that, it's hard to say

Quand on vit aux cotés des gens on ne se rend pas vraiment compte qu'ils changent, et c'est comme cela qu'on finit par les perdre.

You can't pull a gun just because a crazy person wants to talk to you. If I did that I'd never get through a family Christmas.

a truly great person has a profound curiosity about the world and the people in it, an interest that encompasses everything and everyone. Real curiosity, I now know, doesn't leave much room for judgement.

We are the other of the other