Quotes About Understanding

If we're genuinely interested in a book we can even bring ourselves to be greatful when others draw our attention to things we've missed or misunderstood.

Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in their shoes. If you still insist on criticising them, you'll have mike head start and they'll have no shoes.

Nuclear and Hydrogen Bomb experiments were beyond their comprehension. They could not figure out why a person is incarcerated in a mental asylum when he turns mad and why when a nation turns mad, we start calling it a Power

An apology is not the second way in.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

An argument needs no reason, nor a friendship.

Looking back on it today, I can see that Ice was giving

I wanted to learn everything I could about the faces of addiction. I wanted to understand all the ripple effects of crime and violence.

A colleague is not someone who agrees with you. A colleague is someone who disagrees with you but for whom you have respect.

I have often found it difficult to explain myself to myself, and I do not often try.

Entiende lo incomprensible y ámalo.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Saying of the Prophet Understanding Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

Saying of the Prophet Practice Who are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause. 'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.