Quotes About Understanding

entered into and realized Truth, you will no longer suffer disappointment, remorse

As evil is the direct outcome of ignorance, so, when the lessons of evil are fully learned, ignorance passes away, and wisdom takes its place.

The animal in man can never respond to and know the divine; only the divine can respond to the divine.

People are walking around blind. If you are the one who can see, you will be able to navigate through this new world.

Never underestimate the power of a long, protracted silence." Out

Opinions are like money. No matter how much you know, there's always someone who knows more.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

Live life like it's the last day for EVERYONE ELSE.

when they're done speaking, wait for two seconds before responding.

It's not about yes or no. It's about two people falling in love.

I read all the books they like and have spoken publicly about. I read all the analysis on the books so I can discuss it with them. I read all of their books. I read about people they've previously mentored and what happened.

Ask them a question like, 'Do you want this project to fail?' or 'Is this situation not going to work out for either side?'" They don't want to fail, so they will say "no." Now you can start to find common ground.

For instance, you can say, "I know you might not trust me. I know you have had bad dealings in the past. I know you've had a hard childhood and this is the only way to make money." They will say, "That's right." And once you have empathy with them, you can be a little more insistent on what it is you want.

Whatever they say, repeat the last one to three words. Do this as much as possible.

A leader listens to the good reason closely to try and figure out what the real reason is, and then comes up with a solution.

One hundred percent of the time there is a good reason and a real reason for everything.

Tell me, he said, What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for? Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel. And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?

Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

What white people have to do is try and find out in their own hearts why it is necessary to have a 'nigger' in the first place, because I'm not a nigger. I'm a man. But if you think I'm a nigger, it means you need it.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

Don't let it make you bitter. Try to understand. Try to understand. The world's already bitter enough, we got to try to be better than the world.

White people...have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never -- the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.

You don't know what's happening on the other side of the wall, because you don't want to know.