Quotes About Understanding

Curiosity is not a thirst that can be slaked: it is a permanent condition. Every answer points to more and sometimes more profound questions. And knowledge, by itself, achieves nothing: we want more, we want something elusive, called understanding, or wisdom. We want both the big picture, and our place in it.

Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive.

That intimacy is nice, too - knowing that you know so much about someone.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

A Cleaner thinks, If I'm feeling nervous, how the fuck are they feeling? They have to deal with me.

and her answer to it because she's driving the conversation. In

Never criticize people who are not present to defend or explain themselves. And never predict that another person will experience failure.

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

There is nothing that will empower and encourage your team more than to know you listen to them.

She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or expect me to start reading her mind. She doesn't want me to dress better or put highlights in my hair or serious up. I'm not a lifestyle accessory to her. I'm a necessity. I'm the guy that's going to crack open her cocoon. She doesn't need to change me - she needs me to change her. At least until her little butterfly wings get strong enough to fly away.

Finally, she's like, "I know it looks bad right now, but parents are just people. They don't always know what to do. That doesn't mean they don't love you.

Just bring some roses, then. Tell her you were wrong. But don't go into all sorts of promises about how you'll never do it again. Instead, tell her you've been thinking about how she must have felt when she saw that other girl hugging you. That way you can start her talking about her feelings. Then you've got to listen, hard. Let her know that her feelings are important to you. That's all she wanted from you in the first place.

As a consequence of its cultural myopia, the CIA misread the world.

Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.

The FBI was not incompetent or indifferent. It did not know what it did not know.

Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy

There is no understanding communications, or the American and global culture industry, without understanding the conglomerate. Yet

If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.

What the advocates of our dangerous and deepening social amnesia don't understand is how deeply the past holds the future in its grip—even, and perhaps especially, when it remains unacknowledged.

Keep your ears open. You know what the first word of the holy rule of Saint Benedict is? Listen.

To look at the face [of Princess Angeline] and not see humanity is to lack humanity.

Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.

To "fix" someone's problem, you very often just need to empathically listen to them. Even

Don't confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple—many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.