Quotes About Understanding

When one's thoughts and experience have not reached a certain point for reading a masterpiece, the masterpiece will leave only a bad flavor on his palate.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom   So

One dies without regret if there is one in the whole world a "bosom friend," or one who "knows his heart.

my formula for the Chinese national mind is: R4D1H3S3 There

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.

It follows as a matter of course that a half-hour answer to a speech of an hour and a half can be but a very hurried one.

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride.

Focus on the interests and goals you have in common, trade things you care about less for things that matter to you more, and think of yourself and the other negotiator as partners in problem solving.

Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.

What is that admonition about not attempting to teach a pig to sing? It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Mr. Schock smiled at Peter and raised his hand into the air. Peter instinctively struck it in a perfect high five. Mr. Schock's smile transformed into a puzzeled frown. "Joshua, how did you...?" "Peter used to do it," said Peter swiftly.

I tell myself I don't have time, but the truth of the matter is I don't know how to reach out.

I don't know if I love him. I'm not sure what love is, or if I'm qualified to make that proclamation.

Oh, why did people have to be seperated before they understood how much they meant to each other?

He sighed. "You want to know if I love her." He reached over and tilted Sundara's face toward him. "Ask me a question I can answer. Ask me if I love you.

Lord, I give You permission to search my heart and mind. Please show me every day what it feels like to be my husband.

When What Ifs come into our lives, we must ask ourselves if we're going to judge God by the circumstances we don't understand or judge the circumstances in light of the character of God.

Be careful to neither agree nor disagree with what anyone says until you (clearly) understand what he or she is saying.

Those who think differently from us sometimes possess truths we have not yet discovered.