Quotes About Understanding

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

When you're happy you enjoy the music. When you're sad, you understand the lyrics.

Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

New metaphors are capable of creating new understandings and, therefore, new realities. This should be obvious in the case of poetic metaphor, where language is the medium through which new conceptual metaphors are created.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

I love you I know

Faith preceded understanding, and so faith informed and shaped understanding. Working from this principle, Kuyper insisted that reason, natural science, and methodological naturalism were not ideologically neutral. Even the most technical of natural sciences, he observed, operated within the framework of the faith, or higher commitments, of the practitioner.

Yet it would be a failure of imagination if we were to start out-as today's histories sometimes do-by simply judging people of the past for having outlooks that are not like our own. Rather, we must first try to enter sympathetically into an earlier world and to understand its people. Once we do that we will be in a far better position both to learn from them and to evaluate their outlooks critically.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

With patient inattention hear him prate.

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.

Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for each other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment

Can you tell the difference between our margarine and our hair tonic? WE can't.

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume it is true and try to imagine what it might be true of.

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

Only one mistake, Ezra! You should have talked to women.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.