Quotes About Understanding

More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

This idea that it's intolerant to object to anyone else's position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else's point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don't know the first thing about them.

Sense of an Ending

After the onslaught of loss, both personal and historical, do we really believe a good lunch and an aesthetic perception settles the matter?

Abstract love is the nosy neighbor of abstract hate; they see right into each other's windows and they always agree on everything.

You don't really want to crash down the whole universe just to satisfy your situational unease or your incapacity to see the whole picture, do you? You don't want a life based on your failure to understand life, right?

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

A closed book makes a page; Open heart makes a thousand faces. (Un livre fermé fait une page; Coeur ouvert, mille visages)

Binoculars see from far when near the eyes. Far from self, near the heart, in love. (Les jumelles voient de loin quand près des yeux. - Loin de soi, près du coeur ; amoureux.)

Let's salute our enemies. That makes at least one happy. (Saluons nos ennemis. - Ca fait au moins un heureux.)

Love is winning the war without starting the war. (L'amour, c'est gagner la guerre sans commencer la guerre)

One look, all is said. One word, all is lived. (Un regard, tout est dit. - Une parole, tout se vit.)

Peace is done two. And love too. (Paix se fait à deux. Et l' amour aussi)

People say they are alone. But at who do they say that ? (Les gens disent qu'ils sont seuls. Mais à qui le disent-ils ?)

The eyes have undressed things that hands have dressed.

The handle of the heart is the hand of another. (La poignée du cœur - Est la main de l'autre.)

To silence the love, it takes a deaf. (Pour taire l'amour, - Il faut un sourd)

We don't look at the Sun of Truth, but we look at the Truth effects. (Le soleil de la vérité Ne se regarde, mais ses effets)

What good the eyes without anything behind them ? (A quoi bon les yeux Sans rien derrière eux ?)

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

"Are you in pain, dear mother?" "I think there's a pain somewhere in the room," said Mrs. Gradgrind, "but I couldn't positively say that I have got it."