Quotes About Understanding

I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

In terms of helping people understand and know each other a little better, music is universal - universal and transporting.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

The language of football is universal. You don't need to speak the local lingo in order to be able to communicate with a ball.

Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

It's based around a Jewish family but it really is a universal theme about getting along and coming along.

Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama.

I think people are universal.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

I've traveled around the world, and what's so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences.

Pain doesn't have a face and pain doesn't have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.

I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color.

More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.

There's a misunderstanding about what nonsensical things are - the idea that they're just funny, and that's the beginning and the end of it. Nonsense is not 'not sense' - it operates at the edge of sense. It teems with sense - at the same time, it resists any kind of universal understanding.

It's very important to be curious in a very universal way. Whether someone is poor or rich, I'm curious about everything.

I hope that my lyrics have a way that they're so specific they become universal, and they go, 'Oh I've been there, I know what that's like.'

I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.

Music is indeed the universal language and unites people.