Quotes About Understanding

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

Watching the moon at dawn, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.

being contradictory is more important than being right.

The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership.

To get at the root of problems, a leader must develop into a skillful listener. Too many strong personalities are compulsive talkers. "He won't listen to me," complains a missionary. "He gives the answer before I have had a chance to state the problem.

Indeed, if we read merely to stock our head with ideas, to feel superior to others, or to appear learned, then our reading is useless and vain.

In einem Aufklärungsprozess gibt es nur Beteiligte.

The same Christ Jesus is not the same for everyone, because people are different. He has one profile for the poor and another for the rich, one profile for the sick and another for the healthy.

We experience what life and death really are when we love, for in love we go out of ourselves, become capable of happiness and at the same time can be hurt.

We all denounce bores, but while we do so, let us remember that there is nobody who isn't a bore to somebody.

Even the most dreaded of poisonous snakes is a kindly disposed fellow at heart.

Om iets te zien moet je eerst iets kunnen herkennen. Zonder herinnering kun je alleen maar kijken. Dan glijd de wereld spoorloos door je heen.

Experience does not interpret itself.

Trying to understand man without recognizing him as imago Dei is like trying to understand a bas-relief without recognizing it as a carving.

To penetrate the unknown, the mind must begin with what is known already. George Orwell wrote that "We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." This book is an attempt at re-statement.

Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

So everybody who talks about homosexuals as a damnation better look in a mirror and try to heal their own selves. Who they call homosexuals do, at least, act out of their love. That's better than the hate a whole lot of people act out of.

Always sighed deep. "Don't talk to your mama like that son. I … I could call you them same names … but I ain't.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Some of us need to be as sympathetic and understanding of our own failures of the past as we seek now to be understanding of others. We need to remember that we were a work in progress then—as we are still, I hope—and that we had our unique problems and shortcomings that made it difficult for us to be as fine as we wish now we had been. It isn't fair to impose a sixty-year-old's judgment on a twelve-year-old's frame. The

I have no right to argue with you because I haven't walked in your shoes, nor do I have your feet.