Quotes About Understanding

Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

One day/ One day I waited for myself/ I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came/ So I could know just who I am/ I who know others.

Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

When someone is upset, it's not a good time to bring up your own problems.

It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

Time and space are only forms of thought.

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin.

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.

Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Few people give themselves time to be friends.

I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.