Quotes About Understanding

When you stop talking, you've lost your customer.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human 1 relationships.

Don't try to reach God with your understanding; that is impossible. Reach him in love; that is possible.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be dumb.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss.

Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.

If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burden.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.

He hears but half who hears one party only.

It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them.

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.