Quotes About Understanding

He said that my problem was that I was perfectly healthy and had the illusion that I would be able bodied forever. I could only begin understanding his problem if I gave up that illusion and that would be very difficult, given how healthy I was. I understand, I mistakenly said, and he said no you don't.

George Washington Carver said we should be kind to others: "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these.

Stephen Covey. Ele diz que a maioria das pessoas não escuta com a intenção de compreender, mas de responder.

Querer ser o primeiro é amar a nós mesmos. Colocar o próximo em primeiro lugar e estar atento às suas necessidades é amá-lo. Pense em como perdoamos rapidamente as asneiras e absurdos que cometemos. Perdoamos as asneiras e absurdos do próximo com a mesma rapidez? Você não acha que também nos amamos muito mais rapidamente do que amamos os outros?

É importante tratar outros seres humanos exatamente como você gostaria que eles o tratassem.

Seja bom com os outros. A distância que você caminha na vida vai depender da sua ternura com os jovens, da sua compaixão com os idosos, sua compreensão com aqueles que lutam, da sua tolerância com os fracos e os fortes. Porque algum dia na vida você poderá ser um deles." - George Washington Carver

Number one, by cutting me off you obviously have not been listening to me very well if you've already formulated your response in your head; two, you do not value me or my opinion because you refuse to take the time to hear me out; and finally, you must believe that what you've got to say is much more important than what I've got to say. John,

What is inadmissible, both morally and scientifically, is the hubris that pretends to understand the behavior of human agents without for a moment listening systematically to how they understand what they are doing and how they explain themselves.

What about the passages where Scripture appears to be contradictory or those difficult matters we discover in our reading? One suggestion for our reading at these points is to rest in what we do know, trusting God (perhaps through others) to illumine us concerning what we don't know.

Truth never changes; it is the same now, yesterday, and forever, in itself; but our relations towards truth may change, for that which is hidden from us today may become known to us tomorrow.

The Gospel, expressing Jewish understanding and hope, was a Jewish invention.

You never know what they mean until you hear what they don't say.

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.

It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.

Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies.

It is a good thing to have two ways of looking at a subject, and to admit that there are two ways of looking at it.

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.

The more children focused on messages with a real-life purpose, rather than on, say, repetitive grammar drills or artificial dialogues, the more French they understood.

If I could make one rule that everybody would have to follow… Stay Unique, Remain Humble and Kind, and Grow Empathy for others.

Knowing that your love for someone else is real when you make the decision to let them go as their happiness is the only thing that matters to you

People know that you have to exhibit C.A.R. Curiosity, Appreciation and Respect, in order to be gifted with my friendship as otherwise you are wasting my valuable time and yours

Anyone can take anything and make it bigger, the only thing that matters is knowing the person intimately that you are talking to