Quotes About Understanding

Perhaps it is a child's magical thinking. But you cannot know a place until you know the stories it tells about itself.

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.

I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.

We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.

I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted us. Then there came a time when they decided that because not every kid in the class could understand or remember those things they wouldn't teach them anymore because it wasn't fair on the less good ones. So they withheld knowledge. Then I suppose the next lot of teachers didn't have the knowledge to withhold.

Nothing should ever really surprise us because people are like icebergs, you only see the little bit on the top.

In Frank I have found something beyond me, beyond my understanding, this is where some incredible core of me is destined to be even if not in this life.

The Koran offers us two choices, revenge and forgiveness," he said. "But the Koran says that forgiveness is better, so we will forgive. We understand that it was a mistake, so we will forgive. The Americans are building schools and roads, and because of this, we will forgive.

If you want to make a society work, then you don't keep underscoring the places where you're different—you underscore your shared humanity," she told me. "I'm appalled by how much people focus on differences. Why are you focusing on how different you are from one another, and not on the things that unite us?

The human concern for others would seem to be the one story that, adequately told, no person can fully bear to hear. Joanna's

The human concern for others would seem to be the one story that, adequately told, no person can fully bear to hear.

The great thing about alpha was that it could be explained:

Imparai tutte, o quasi tutte, le cose più importanti che erano state pensate e scritte prima della mia nascita; mi abituai a guardare il mondo con cento occhi, anziché con i miei due soli, e a sentire nella mia testa cento pensieri diversi, anziché il mio solo pensiero. Diventai consapevole di me stesso e degli altri. Gli uomini, senza la lettura, non conoscono che una piccolissima parte delle cose che potrebbero conoscere.

I rather regretted that I did not myself have a sister who was a friend and with whom I could compare myself, the better to understand both my singularity and our commonality.

I would urge us to be not too certain of our accustomed ways of looking at Genesis, and to open ourselves to the wisdom of the God-bearing men of the past who have devoted so much intellectual effort to understanding the text of Genesis as it was meant to be understood. These Holy Fathers are our key to understanding Genesis.

We who live on earth can hardly even begin to understand the reality of the spiritual world until we ourselves come to dwell in it. This is a process that begins now, in this life, but ends only in eternity, when we will behold "face to face" what we now see only "through a glass, darkly

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.

As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.

Marketing is our quest to make change on behalf of those we serve, and we do it by understanding the irrational forces that drive each of us.

What most people want in a leader is something that's very difficult to find: we want someone who listens...The secret, Reagan's secret, is to listen, to value what you hear, and then to make a decision even if it contradicts the very people you are listening to. Reagan impressed his advisers, his adversaries, and his voters by actively listening. People want to be sure you hear what they said - they're less focused on whether or not you do what they said.

One of the things that school is for is to teach our children to understand and relish the idea of intellectualism, to develop into something more than a purpose-driven tool for the industrial state.

When Pat Holt strings together a list of words not to overuse—"Actually, totally, absolutely, completely, continually, constantly, continuously, literally, really, unfortunately, ironically, incredibly, hopefully, finally"—she's not being a stickler for formality and grammar. Instead she's reminding us that words matter, that poor word use is just a red flag for someone who wants to ignore you.