Quotes About Understanding

Los matrimonios no se disuelven porque alguno de los cónyuges deje de decir "Te quiero", sino porque los miembros de la pareja dejan de tratarse con amor.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.

Peter 3:8: "Unto the Lord, a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day.

Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361

How little we know, I thought, of the people we live amongst.

For the hour in which I am able to lose myself in someone else's thoughts is the greatest relief I can find from the burden of my own memories.

I had come to think that the Wampanoag, who dealt so kindly with their babes, were wiser than we in this. What profit was there in requiring little ones to behave like adults? Why bridle their spirits and struggle to break their God-given nature before they had the least understanding of what was wanted of them?

Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.

My mother was an excellent woman. Pious, virtuous. Kind. But she was not the intellectual equal of my father. Not by any means. I do not speak of book learning. I speak of a certain innate quality of mind, a superior understanding. Because she had it not, their companionship was - diminished. Father looked to his books, rather than to his wife.

Josip had only an instant to exchange a glance with Serif. He made it the most eloquent glance of his life.

Somehow, the telling of all this rinsed my mind clean and left me able to think clearly once more. By gathering and sorting my own feelings so, I was finally able to fashion a scale on which I could weigh my father's nature and find a balance between my disgust for him and an understanding of him; my guilt in the matter of his death against the debt he owed me for the manner of my life. At the finish of it, I felt free of him, and I was able to think calmly once more. Elinor

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.

Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.

Intuition ... appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premisses, but in the nature and parts of premisses.