Quotes About Understanding

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.

I would go so far as to say I would not have the life that I have right now if it wasn't for Gabe Liedman. He is the first person I met in my adulthood that I felt was truly delighted by me and understood me and also was curious about me.

My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.

I am not some intellectual hoping to be understood a century from now. I'm a political leader. I have to stand in front of my community. If I am a metre too far out in front of the people, I'll lose them.

Some people spend their time reasoning and thinking out everything, and so anything that cannot be fully understood, they will not accept. We call these people 'intellectuals.'

Israeli suffering has to be understood.

I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.

What made me so brave? Maybe it was being the middle kid of 11, and we all had to share one bathroom. New underwear? I never discovered that until I got into college.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say.

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

God wants us to show compassion and understanding toward the unemployed or the poor not because they are poor, but because poor people, with help from those who are already successful, can become rich. And when the poor become rich, all will benefit, because in our modern economy new unemployment is the first sign of economic growth.

People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

People tend to fear what they don't understand and in a pressure-filled environment with all sorts of personalities, it is very easy to cast unfair accusations.

I do think that it's unfair to criticise anyone if they are having a bad day.

It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.

You really can't stereotype people or put them in boxes, it's unfair.

I think it's unfair to commit to a girl and not be able to give her the time she deserves.