Quotes About Understanding

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.

Of course, South Americans are different from Europeans; I knew that when we played them.

My dad was an ex-player, so he knew what he was saying. When we talk about football, he knows what he's talking about. We can talk all evening.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

I listen a lot. I think people have their own answers, and if you just listen to someone and agree with them, eventually they'll work it out for themselves.

I think that every man has a 16-year-old girl inside of him.

I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.

I want to try to give everybody else a fair shot and know that you don't know what that person went through before you met them that day. We don't know what people are walking out of or dealing with. The hope is that even when people aren't sure about me, maybe I can try to love them and be sure about them.

The key to solving problems such as violence, discrimination, inequality, human rights violations, and environmental destruction is to be found not in systems or technology but in recovering empathy.

Understanding is very different from knowing. Understanding is a psychological process of perceiving an object through reason. It is, in a sense, conceptualizing an object. But an object cannot be fully comprehended by conceptual understanding alone. Knowing is not thinking artificially or mobilizing rational logic. It is a state in which you come to obviously and plainly know, without trying to get it right.

Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth.

Peace will not occur magically because one or two individuals awaken to the truth of the nature of harmony and order. Peace will only prosper when the principle of harmonious order becomes common sense rather than a novel idea.

MY understanding is that Mago Castle is not a physical place, but a symbol of the state of human consciousness and energy that is completely one with divinity. In that sense, Mago Castle is inside us.

Enlightenment is true love

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Tanto le cegaba a uno la felicidad como para no percatarse del dolor ajeno?

In Bonaventure's view only one who is on a journey to God can really know God; faith seeks understanding through the path of love.

LXXX. Den Anderen nur als 'Anderen' wahrzunehmen ist der Beginn von Gewalt.

XXIV. Wurzeln zu schlagen ist nicht immer ein probates Mittel gegen Einsamkeit.

How people react is going to be based on how you react.

In peaceful times in a peaceful country a man grows up, goes to school, marries, works, suffers illnesses, grows old. He may go through the whole of life without understanding what freedom is. No doubt he always feels free to the extent to which it is proper for a respectable citizen with average powers of imagination to be free.

The deaf don't believe in silence. Silence is the invention of the hearing.