Quotes About Understanding

Understanding an idea meant entangling it so thoroughly with all the other symbols in your mind that it changed the way you thought about everything. Still

He was a bridger. He created you to touch other cultures. He wanted you to reach as far as you could.

I used to think that if you changed from … valuing one thing to valuing another, it was because you'd learnt something new, understood something better. And it's not like that at all. I just value what I'm stuck with. That's it, that's the whole story. People make a virtue out of necessity. They sanctify what they can't escape.

life must be lived forwards, but it can only be understood backwards.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

I don't really understand the world anymore. But maybe there's some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together.

You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.

We judge and punish based on facts, but facts are not truth. Facts are like a buried skeleton uncovered long after death. Truth is fluid. Truth is alive. To know the truth requires understanding, the most difficult human art. It requires seeing all things at once, forward and backward, the way God sees.

In relation to therapeutic issues where we are manufacturing our own pain, the pain must be understood as a failure of creativity. The response to a certain situation has rigidified. We have lost our ability to create new responses for new situations. We do not understand how we have participated in creating our pain. We are no longer able to recognize new situations when they occur.

Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.

Understanding is the essence of enlightenment. -Harrar

thought he knew how to begin. "After you kids came along," he told her, "your mother said something I didn't really understand. She said, 'I look at the babies and see myself as they'll remember me.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

Without faith, there is no proper understanding by which a man can judge. As Augustine well said, 'I believe in order to understand'.

The teaching of Colossians 2:3-8 is unambiguous. ALL knowledge (note: not simply knowledge of "religious" matters is to be found in Christ.

The foundation of knowledge is God's revelation.

Every testimony is valid because there is someone out there a lot like you.

Abdul brushed the dirt from the American's forehead, where it had been pressed to the cool ground. "Not Pakistan man," he said. "But if you say Bosnia, I believe.

When youu take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

Haji Ali taught me to...slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

We all sat there laughing and sipping tea peacefully, an infidel and representatives from three warring sects of Islam. And I thought if we can get along this well, we can accomplish anything. The British policy was 'divide and conquer.' But I say 'unite and conquer.

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

Internalization cannot happen through a mass transference to an audience but must occur in an interpersonal environment.