Quotes About Understanding

Sometimes the best way to communicate something is to explain what happens in the absence of it.

You bond with customers by talking more about what's most important to them (their problems), rather than whatever might be most important to you (your solutions).

If you want to motivate people, then it's more important to think about what they want, rather than what you want.

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

A book that is shut is but a block.

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The only knowledge perfectly acquired is the knowledge of our limitation.

it models the primary way in which the church comes to know God's will.

church has discovered that when it goes to the Scripture in faith, it finds itself encountered by Christ in ways that serve as the keys for understanding its encounters with Christ everywhere else.

Exegesis can help us in many ways, but it finally cannot do what is most important: tell us what this text wishes to say on this occasion to our congregation. The preacher must decide this, and it is a risky and exciting decision. Getting

As dysfunctional as they may be on occasion, our theories, preconceptions, and "biases" are what make us smart.

But the wisest person in the room, or around the negotiating table, knows enough not to fall prey to naïve realism and simply assume that meanings are fixed, and shared

People are less aware, however, of another source of divergent beliefs—the fact that the same issue or situation is construed quite differently by different people, even people with the same tastes, values, and orientations. As social psychologist Solomon Asch noted many years ago, differences of opinion between people are not always linked to differences in their "judgment of the object," but often reflect differences in the very "object of judgment" itself.

To live, it seems, is to explain, to justify, and to find coherence among diverse outcomes, characteristics, and causes.

The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.

It is not enough to hear a sermon, but you must eat it down, take in what it commands, and then it will purge your heart...Take the word and digest it, squeeze the juice of it into thy heart, and it will purge thee from all contrary corruption.

Nuestros pensamientos y entendimiento fueron asignados para moderar, suavizar, enfriar y apartar nuestras pasiones cuando estas se desbordan, para gobernarlas y dominarlas. Pero, en lugar de eso, se sujetan a nuestras emociones, convirtiéndose en algo parecido al combustible para nuestros malos deseos, y haciéndoles arder más.

The generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and to know myself a Man. - Hymn to Adversity

She was a woman of extended silences, I noticed, and she said very little as we walked the streets of La Boca, looking at its brightly colored houses. It was as if she understood that quiet observation was the key to knowing a place, perhaps even the key to life.

There are mysteries in science, and mysteries in art, but the greatest mystery has always been another person's deepest motivation.