Quotes About Understanding

No one is born hating another person... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Hate is misguided love.

We cannot heal when hate persists.

Love is blind; hate is deaf.

A loving heart heals hate.

End discrimination. Hate everybody.

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.

My heart got to thumping. You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

I am looking your heart in the eye!

Then, Sir, you would reduce all history to no better than an almanack, a mere chronological series of remarkable events.

Perhaps we are yet too near the great events of which this act formed so conspicuous a part, to understand its deep significance and to foresee its far-off consequences. The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves, especially when they read it by the fierce and dusky light of war, or amid the deeper shadows of those sorrows which war brings to both.

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is convex or concave should be doomed to not think of anything else, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that my art is not above the ordinary.

When a person is accustomed to 138 in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.... when they said it was now "cold weather," I saw that they had traveled outside of their sphere of knowledge and were floundering. I believe that in India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

A hug is worth a thousand words.

The geometry of human progress is an expanding circle of compassion. Every advance in thinking has shown that our relationships extend further than we thought.

We may be the intelligent species, but we are certainly not the smartest!

He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always shrunk. I had learned to look more closely at life as it was lived, to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world, to emerge from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain values on the concrete and objective phases of existence.

They seemed to share the kindliness and largeness of John Thornton.

The woman factor explains many things of men.

Bir ?eyin neden oldu?u konusuna asla kafa yormad?. Nas?l oldu?u, ona yeterdi.

He's trying to speak, I do believe, Beth announced. At this moment speech came to White Fang, rushing up in a great burst of barking. Something has happened to Weedon, His wife said decisively.

kelimelerin diliyle de?il, sevginin diliyle vermi?ti cevab?n?.

L'amour qu'il avait pour elle l'empêchait de bien la comprendre; elle, en revanche, ne le comprenait pas parce que sa stature excédait tout ce qui se trouvait dans le champ borné de sa perception.