Quotes About Understanding

I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.

The idea of your younger sibling being in pain and realizing you are the cause of that pain is unbearable.

The owner of Mid-South Wrestling, 'Cowboy' Bill Watts was and is extremely intelligent and unbelievable at understanding the psychology of our industry and I probably learned more from him then just about anybody.

Nobody really knows what it would take to create something that is self-aware or has a personality. I guess I could imagine a day when perhaps, if we can understand how it works in the human brain, which is unbelievably complicated, it could be possible.

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

I would like the whole world to be full of feminine qualities. Then only can wars disappear.

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.

We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

The mind at war with itself does war with any other mind, and that produces war in the world - all of it.

The class war is over.

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.