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Quotes About Understanding

Hurry wounds a questioning soul.
~ Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist
The hundred-year-old man had never let himself be irritated by people, even when there was a good reason to be, and he was not annoyed by the uncouth manner of this youth.
~ Jonas Jonasson
Sometimes, God doesn't make things happen in a sudden, but for a reason!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Annihilate the enemy with acts of kindness only you can afford.
~ Suzanne Stroh, Tabou: Sylvie
Patience is learned through waiting
~ E'yen A. Gardner
sometimes is good to be in patience, it can be mean understand, sometimes patience can describe as sacrifice, but everytime it hurting ourself
~ Tun Teja
True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.
~ Barack Obama
I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.
~ Edith Cavell
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
~ Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada
Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
~ Barack Obama
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
~ Chinua Achebe
Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
~ John of the Cross
How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?
~ Lester B. Pearson
Secularism must be applied everywhere, because that is how everyone will be able to live in peace with each other.
~ Manuel Valls
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
~ Chinua Achebe
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
~ Ruth Benedict
The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.
~ Stevie Wonder