Quotes About Understanding

Remember, confrontation is about reconciliation and awareness, not judgement or anger.

Real, lasting closure is never secured through retribution or retaliation.

I don't hate people, i assume they are dead!

Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?

I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!

Have we become so defensive that we cannot even tolerate a kind act?

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?

Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.

I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.