Quotes About Understanding

The most respectful reading we can give to the text, the reading most faithful to the face value of the text—and the most "literal" understanding, if you will—is the one that comes from their world not ours. Consequently

To whom shall I speak and give warning That they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed And they cannot listen. —JEREMIAH 6:10 NASB

Sometimes what you're looking for is right under your nose and you don't even know it.

For a relationship to work, you really have to know the person you're involved with. Otherwise it's never going to last.

Convergence assumes that scientific discoveries matter to faith.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem [From shadows and symbols into the truth]!

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

To use history is the only alternative to remaining its slave. To escape a continuing bondage to the past, we must understand the past. Only thus can we make it our servant and instrument, and not leave it our master.

Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.

Image is a projection of how a company would like to be understood by customers; identity is the reality of what a company delivers as experienced by customers

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

A cat may look on a king.

Small pitchers have wide ears.

But in deed,A friend is never known till a man have need.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

la sabiduría es la capacidad de distinguir ambas cosas: aceptar lo que viene dado y tratar de cambiar lo que esté en nuestra mano.

I was picked up by a man in a hurry - a Franciscan monk who took pity on me...As we raced through the orange groves...I asked him to explain the difference between our god and theirs. His reply, "There is no difference; the difference is us.

Humanity does not differ in any profound way; there are not essentially different species of human beings. If we could only put ourselves in the shoes of others to see how we would react, then we might become aware of the injustice of discrimination and the tragic inhumanity of every kind of prejudice.

Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty

What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected in them.