Quotes About Understanding

Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be filled with understanding and equipped with the gift of keen observation . . .

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

I tell you what you'll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.

People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model.

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Oh no, honey, I can't read little things like letters. I read big things like men.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.

To see your enemy and know him is a part of the complete education of man.

All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.

The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Faith talks in the language of God. Doubt talks in the language of man.

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.