Quotes About Understanding

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

If you want my personal view I do not think it matters what you worship provided what you worship does no harm to others....You must remember always that one man's God may be another man's fairy tale, but both Gods and fairy tales have their place in the world.

Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that made you feel he was not so much teaching you something new, as reminding you of something which you were already aware of, but which had, for some reason or other, slipped your mind.

Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.

I am beginning to see that I don't have to judge or interpret the motives and behaviors of others. There is no need to decide who are the good guys and who are the bad, who should be blamed and who punished. I find it truly is "safe" to surrender the script written by me and trust in God's script.

Adults are children, too, because in every adult's heart, there is a child's life that will stay there for eternity. So please listen to children, because when you don't, it is like not listening to yourself.

I can be of no real help to another unless I see that the two of us are in this together, that all of our differences are superficial and meaningless, and that only the countless ways we are alike has any importance at all.

My outer success did not change the inner state of my mind and heart. Part of me kept insisting there had to be more to life than this. I do not remember consciously thinking that I was a seeker or that I was looking for my home for peace of mind. But I do remember well that chronic state of emptiness and sadness, superimposed on giant pools of damned-up inside tears. In nearly every area of my life, I felt no one really understood me and I understood nothing at all.

In order to experience peace instead of conflict, it is necessary to shift our perception.

The darkness of the night implies nothing sinister, only that the liberation takes place in hidden ways, beneath our knowledge and understanding.

That Jews and Christians, together with Muslims, can live in amity, respecting differences while honoring commonalities—that this is no pipe dream—is proven by the fact that, for centuries, they did just that. —James Carroll1

It seemed to me at that moment that the peril hanging over us, the horrors we had seen at Babi Yar and elsewhere, made it all the more vital that we love each other, never hurt each other, always be truthful and gentle with each other. Helena understood that also. I could see it in her eyes, sense it in her sighs, and small cries, and reluctance to let go of me.

if everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world.  If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth. 

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

What you don't know may not hurt you, but what you don't remember always does.

No matter how strange it may look, most people are actually trying to be helpful.* That

Unless and until all members of a team have a common understanding of the problem, attempts to solve the problem are just so much wasted energy.

If you cannot think of three ways of abusing a tool, you do not understand how to use it. Faithful

The name of a thing is not the thing.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. - Will Rogers The

When you're not terribly smart, it helps to be a good listener.

No, you idiot. I love you. Shall I kiss you again to prove it?" Gaheris nodded, and for the next few minutes there was no more talking.

es igual de fácil y toma el mismo tiempo decir, "Lo siento, mi vida. En este momento no tengo tiempo", en lugar de "¡¿Qué no puedes ver que estoy ocupado?! ¡Deja de molestar!". Con los niños, un sencillo acto de cortesía puede hacer mucho.