Quotes About Understanding

Take it from someone using the chair: people who do not use chairs do not like to talk about the chair. They are so worried about saying the wrong thing that they either don't say anything at all or, more likely . . . they say the wrong thing. But that's OK too! I like talking about the chair! I like it when people ask me how I'm feeling. I like it when people remember there's a person in here.

Love is not blind-It sees more and not less, but because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Wir alle stehen in Verbindung miteinander, nicht nur sozial und auf körperlicher Ebene, sondern auch über den Strom unserer Gedanken und Emotionen, die einander durchdringen .... Verantwortungsgefühl, Verständnis, Mitgefühl, Liebe, Nicht-Verletzen - das sind die wahren Glieder der Kette, die uns verbindet, und sie müssen in unseren Herzen geschmiedet werden.

Teaching is learning, and learning is the teaching.

if you're waiting for the Twitter workshop, you're missing the point.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

A man that don't love a horse, there is something the matter with him.

Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." -Will Rogers

Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects.

The more learned a man is the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...

Books speak to us thoughtfully, one at a time. They demand our attention. And they demand that we briefly put aside our own beliefs and prejudices and listen to someone else's. There's one questions I think we should ask one another a lot more often, and that's "what are you reading?

Books had always been a way for my mother and me to introduce and explore topics that concerned us but made us uneasy, and they had also always given us something to talk about when we were stressed or anxious.

I used to say that the greatest gift you could ever give anyone is a book. But I don't say that anymore because I no longer think it's true. I now say that a book is the second greatest gift. I've come to believe that the greatest gift you can give people is to take the time to talk with them about a book you've shared. A book is a great gift; the gift of your interest and attention is even greater.

As for me, I'm on a search and have been, I now realize, all my life - to find books to help me make sense of the world, to help me become a better person, to help me get my head around the big questions that I have and answer some of the small ones while I'm at it.