Quotes About Understanding

empathy does more to your conscience than a news report

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don't look at its manifestation.

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

The one-eyed is always beauty in the land of the blind.

Maybe you only get one chance at meeting somebody who really gets inside you, wakes corners of your mind and heart that you didn't know were asleep.

The pursuit of truth is like picking raspberries. You miss a lot if you approach it from only one angle.

The outsider sees details as meaningless, or doesn't see the details at all. That is what makes most of us outsiders.

Wisdom, said William James, Is learning what to overlook. And I am wise If that is wisdom.

For a long time, whenever the hunter took off his clothes, she would laugh as if he were playing a trick on her, something magical but ridiculous. He would explain to her how useful and beautiful clothes are; she listened, always, with the same willing doubtful smile. She would have liked to be fooled, but it was more than she could manage; the hunter was the one clothed thing in a naked world.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

For the rest of us, the price of our inability to place ourselves in the fullness of world history has been crippling.

People don't have to be perfect for you to love them," he said. "You understand what I'm saying? Sometimes you love them because they aren't perfect. You love them for their imperfections . . .

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

Please say that my line is to make to smile the lunatic who has shown no sign of mirth for many months.

Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.

Language was just that thing that happened when you opened your mouth at the table, squeezed a few noises out of your vocal chords, and induced Socrates thereby to pass the salt.

Don't limit God to fit in the way that you think that He is going to speak, because just about the time that we think we have Him figured out, He will oftentimes speak to us in another way. God wants us to be in tune with him, and not just in tune with one of the ways that He gives those words.

We all harbor irreconcilable ideas. (People are no damn good, but I'm a fine fellow. Being overweight is a grave threat to my health; please pass the doughnuts. Life is short; let's watch TV.) Yet most of us get along pretty well.

If we really understand the problem, the solution will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. Krishnamurti

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

You could tell a lot about someone by listening to him talk about his enemies.

Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

When we're connected to others, we become better people.