Quotes About Understanding

I don't want to be patronizing . . . that means "talking down."

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell.

You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

Some day they will know what I mean.

Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life, so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out; it takes much more courage to listen.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

The same heart beats in every human breast.

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

I prefer love over sex.

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.

Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

You're only human, you're supposed to make mistakes.