Quotes About Understanding

We can only learn to love by loving.

These—the shared, simple acts of everyday life—are the realities on which international understanding can be built.

May those that love us, love us. And those that don't love us, May God turn their hearts. And if He doesn't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles So we will know them by their limping.

God made time, but man made haste.

Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.

A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

Every invalid is a doctor.

Everyone is wise until he speaks.

Father thou art in heaven, please make my inside so good and so fine that he can love me. I'm going to buy him a tie, because that's something I can do. Someone once told me that I have an almost masculine understanding of it. i guess there are situations where having a past is to your advantage. Heavenly Father, perform a miracle and give me an education--I can do the rest myself with make-up.

We went to the movies together. It was a movie about girls in uniforms. They were high-class girls, but they had the same problems I have. You love somebody and that brings tears to your eyes and gives you a red nose. You love somebody--it's nothing you can understand. It doesn't matter whether it's a man or a woman or God.

You can always tell the profession of a girl's last boyfriend, because they talk the language of his occupation.

Our own mistakes are always the ones which we hold against other people …

And that's what's important: how you react to someone while they're sleeping and not exerting any influence over you.

Your own toothache always hurts more than someone else's broken leg.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]

How difficult it is to be simple.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.

Our imperfections are the bonds that hold us together. We might as well recognize them.

All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It's a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and seeing whether they match. And this works, not just for the ordinary aspects of science, but for all of life. I should think people would want to know that what they know is truly what the universe is like, or at least as close as they can get to it.