Quotes About Understanding

I judge nothing; I just don't do that. Life is too complicated.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.

I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet.

I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

Words of the world are the life of the world.

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

Recognize that everyone suffers in their own life, even if you don't see it; even if you think they've got it easy.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

Give the benefit of the doubt; assume that your beloved's intentions are life-enhancing and positive.

Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.

A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.

Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.

It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all