Quotes About Understanding

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read them.

I am made all things to all men.

It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually.

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.

Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That's what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowhip with other human beings as we take our place among them.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

Every invalid is a physician.

Some of the papers presented at today's medical meeting tell us what we already know, but in a much more complicated manner.

A man must get a thing before he can forget it.

It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish.

We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.