Quotes About Understanding

All of us have people in our lives who drive us crazy. We've spent hours reliving the unfair, unappreciative, inconsiderate treatment they have inflicted on us. But getting mad at this person makes just about as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair.

I wish we could do a better job of understanding what we're doing to kids, because it can be better. It's unfair to give up on these young black kids. We don't do that to white kids.

When I said that the court should be willing to suffer even intemperate criticism, I did not mean that people should level intemperate criticism. What I said is even if criticism is intemperate or unfair and bordering on scurrilous and abusive, it will be understood for what it is by the people.

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

Face-to-face conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience.

Children are not unforgiving. You can punish them and they will hug you in a few minutes.

Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.

The unfortunate thing about this planet is that we are in no shortage of ignorance.

My kids, they take a lot from me and I always come from an intellectual place. Like intellectually, not emotionally, and most people come from an emotional place and it's unfortunate.

People are human. People have failings. It's unfortunate people want to keep piling on people's failings.

Unfortunately, I don't know many black people.

Mental illness, unfortunately, is an invisible disease: it's not seen or heard. For whatever reason, because of that, society has decided that if we can't see it, maybe it doesn't exist, so they want to just sweep it under the carpet or say, 'Snap out of it,' or that you're looking for attention.

Unfortunately, the reporters ask the same questions over and over again. When reporters keep asking the same questions, they've got to recognize I may hear these questions 20 to 30 times in a matter of days. It gets to the point where I think, 'Read the other interviews!'

For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.

Unfortunately, people not just in India but globally seem to be lacking empathy. Not just during the pandemic, but in other times too.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

If I were younger, I'd know more.

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.