Quotes About Understanding

Isn't this what we want to know about those whom we care about? What is it like, we wonder at each meeting, in shared meals and secrets and silences, with each touch and glance, to be you?

We are always mistaking the suffering of others; it's either much worse than we think or not nearly so bad.

We're an odd match. Imagine Ronald Reagan and Jesse Jackson; imagine night and day. George has built nuclear reactors and believes in them fiercely. We stay away from this and other subjects the way I'd stay away from Three Mile Island. After all, I have plenty of friends who share my most impassioned opinions; we can have an orgy of agreement any day at the natural foods restaurant, over a sprout sandwich. But he's the one out here helping.

Ada satu prinsip yang harus kamu ingat. Ilmu itu harta yang paling berharga. Kalau ada kesempatan untuk menambah ilmu, jangan pernah kamu sia-siakan.

Nowdays it is the fashion to admire loudest what one understands least. - Mr Bingley

What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

The French may be straining the truth in their famous saying that "to understand all is to forgive all"," but it is certainly true that the more we know of any given person, the harder it becomes to hate him.

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

The way in which we say something is often more important than what we say.

For most people read not with their minds, but with their emotions and prejudices. They read into or read out of a piece of writing what they want to. And when they disagree, it is usually not with what the writer says, but with what they imagine he said... People filter what they read through the fine strainer of their feelings and preconceptions, their prejudices and fears.

when the createdness of the other person is not viewed as necessary as our own—then there is no reason (beyond expediency) to treat the other as a person. All injustice and cruelty come, basically, from this distorted view of reality.

But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as 'reasonable' as we like to think they are.

A good talker is sensitive to expression, to tone and color and inflection in human speech. Because he himself is articulate, he can help others to articulate their half-formulated feelings. His mind fills in the gaps, and he becomes, in Socrates' words, a kind of midwife for ideas that are struggling to be born.

When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he means—for there can be no knowledge without words; there can only be feelings.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves -- so how can we know anyone else?

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

And that is the beautiful thing about friendship: we can take liberties, we can show our frailer side, we can afford the vast luxury of giving way to our boredom when we are bored, our anger when we are angry, our peckishness when we feel downhearted.

As Bernard Shaw said, "He who can, does: he who cannot, teaches." But, as Sydney J. Harris put it, "Let's revise Shaw's foolish saying to 'He who can, does; he who understands, teaches.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.