Quotes About Understanding

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.

Life would certainly be easier if we all came equipped with our own personal FAQ lists. When we meet someone, we could pass them a business card with the list on the back, and then step back and let them read before we tried to talk.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

Gene Roddenberry's thing always was, we should not pass judgment on anything that anyone else believes in or what they do in their lives.

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

'A Passage To India' by E. M. Forster - It opened my mind to a world I'd never known before.

I want to understand rites of passage I've never experienced, like motherhood.

My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate.

My grandmother has passed away, but she was sanctified. I would not want anyone in the church to judge her because of what I do.

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

Before passing a judgement on somebody just give it a thought about what he or she went through.

I've always wanted to try things for myself before passing a judgment on them.

As a character actor, you have to understand that it's not about you. You have to remember it's about someone else's life. And your character is just passing through.

If you don't want to investigate what you're passing judgment on, then it's your fault. And I believe that if people investigate Goldberg as a human being, I'm not such a bad guy.

We Americans have an obligation to come to China, to learn more about China. Why? Because with each passing day, it's going to be more and more in our future.

Endeavour to come to an agreement on such or such a question and then return not with a law in your pocket, but with a proposition of agreement which we may or may not accept.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

The botanist looking at a daffodil has no reason to dispute the right of the poet to look at the same object in a very different manner. There are many ways of playing. The point is not that one denies other people's games but that one is clear about the rules of one's own.

Theology must begin and end with the question of truth.

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

For the Sufi Traveler, every journey is the haji, every tajalli is the Kaaba. Every path, if it be properly understood, is the Path; every way, however fraught with difficulty, can be experienced as a "straight" path to realization.