Quotes About Understanding

Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

I'd always find the positive in someone.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

Genuineness requires listening through both verbal and nonverbal channels.

Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

It's indispensable to fully understand the basis and modus operandi of the Law of Karma to orientate the ship of our life in a positive and exemplary way.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

To that there is an answer.

Most of who we are is our deepest emotions, and someone who cannot feel those emotions in a positive way is never going to understand much about his fellow human beings.

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

Overly positive, horrendously cheerful people can make a depressed person even more depressed. In fact, perhaps the least helpful thing one can say to a depressed person is, "Cheer up!"

I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

That doesn't matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it's great.

Listen. Don't just wait to talk.