Quotes About Understanding

Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and living in another man.

The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever to him the great human and divine book, and the men and women, whom he had looked upon as something quite different from himself, became his friends and counsellors.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

The place to start assessing a culture is to listen, really listen, to how employees describe a place. We believe that within most generalizations there lies an inner core of truth.

I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

Silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation.

Nothing is more helpful to reduce pride than the actual experience of self-knowledge. If we are discouraged by it, we have misunderstood its meaning.

The striking discoveries of contemporary science are continually telling us new things about how material creation came to be and how it continues to evolve. Although we do not have all the answers, we are clearly going in a direction that transcends the cosmology in which the great world religions came into existence. Our vision, understanding, and our attitudes about God inevitably must change.

The great treasure that interreligious dialogue among the world religions could unlock is to enable people to get to know and love other religions and the people who practice them. The

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.