Quotes About Understanding

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.

I had to realize that other people had an opinion that counted, and I had to realize that other people had feelings, and you've got to watch their feelings and listen to what they have to say.

While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.

There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

People are so opinionated about things, and they don't even know what they're talking about, or can't even do it themselves.

There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think we are all.

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

By isolating ourselves from those with whose opinions we disagree, we lose the ability to defend our beliefs.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.

I had to realize that everyone has opinions, and they all have the right to feel a certain way, and you have to respect that.

The fact is that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

In America, the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

LORD GORING: ... All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may.

If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I know life, I have no more to say.

I don't think that you should tell me that you love me wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly.  Hopelessly doesn't seem to make much sense, does it?