Quotes About Understanding

You must be patient before you criticize.

Sometimes full agreements, delicate agreements, should not be reduced into writing.

It's all so simple, Anjin-san. Just change your concept of the world.

It's unseemly to criticize without knowledge.

quarreling avails nothing.

Is it not true that men of good faith put aside what divides them in order to emphasize what brings them together?

There must not and cannot be any conflict, estrangement or misunderstanding between the Chinese people and America. —Mao Zedong

What else is there to do in this world but love other people?

All of us are starving … for attention, for love, for understanding. I don't care what the sisters say: we take more shit than they do in this life, 'cause we are brothers in a white man's world, and there ain't no space for us. Never has been, never will be. All we want, all we need is someone to love us for who we are, to grow with us, so that the world ain't such a bad place.

You don't build a bond without being present.

They were heedless of the fact that they'd gain more converts if they just stopped talking.

It's tough being a dangerous old man by yourself—you've got nothing but memories and no one with the balls to understand them.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was young. Since I can never see your face, And never shake you by the hand, I send my soul through time and space To greet you. You will understand.

There is all the difference in the world between knowing about and knowing how to do.

Very few men attain enough of human knowledge to be fully aware how much remains to be learned, and of that which they never can hope to acquire.

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

If mankind conversed only of the things they understood, half the words might be struck out of the dictionaries.

Che diritto hanno i cristiani bianchi di vantarsi del loro sapere, mentre un indiano è in grado di leggere una lingua che sarebbe troppo oscura per il più saggio di loro?

Compassion is the love that recognizes and goes forth to identify with the preciousness of all that is lost and broken within ourselves and others.

I stand, walk over to him, sit down on his bed, put my arms around him, hug him. He hugs me back strong and I can feel the shame coming through his arms. I am a Criminal and he is a Judge and I am white and he is black, but at this moment none of that matters. He is a man who needs a friends and I can be his friend.

Hate me if you must, but know that I will never hate you.

You care if I say motherfucking around you? I smile. I'd be fucking offended if you didn't. Hank laughs, slaps his knee. That's my motherfucking Boy.

On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the women watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and i don't blame her.

Did you hurt yourself? Sort of. Why'd you do that? I didn't do it on purpose. It's just the cost of doing business. Her Grandmother smiles and she gently touches my face with her free hand. I hope that's a business you're leaving, James. I smile, enjoy the warmth of her hand. We'll see. She nods. Her eyes and her hand understand my words, have seen and felt this type of damage before. There is no judgment and no condescension. Just hope.