Quotes About Understanding

Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

Play the game, but don't believe in it – that much you owe yourself … Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.

Some things have to be believed in to be seen.

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, 2nd edition,

shun rash judgment. Even if you should see your neighbor doing what is wrong, refuse to pass judgment on him, excuse him instead. Excuse his intention even if you cannot excuse his act, which may be the fruit of ignorance or surprise or chance.27

Mark Twain said on one occasion, "It is not those parts of scripture that are hard to understand that most disturb me, but those parts that are so clear!

I always loved him more after he had scolded me than I did at any other time.

Our history deserves honesty and our citizens need it. Without understanding who we really were, we'll never quite grasp who we have become, leaving us prey to demagogues and despicable entertainments.

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, I am the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.