Quotes About Understanding

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.

According to that fundamental principle, language is truthful, not when the meaning attached to the words by the speaker, but when the meaning intended to be produced in the mind of the particular person addressed, is in accordance with the facts.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!

Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.

Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

Hades is evolved to the highest state of simplicity.

But, as I delved into Chinese for Dummies, I couldn't help but conclude that the Chinese language is the Great Wall of languages, a clever linguistic barrier erected to keep outsiders out. What, frankly, is wrong with Esperanto? Or alphabets? What is so deficient about an alphabet that uses a judicious twenty-six letters? We can make lots of words with those twenty-six letters, big words even.

If you do not know how to teach the gospel, you may not truly understand it. And if you do not understand it, you may not be a true Christian.

In a culture of evangelism, there is an understanding that everyone is engaged. Have you ever heard someone say, "Evangelism is not my gift," as if that excused him from sharing his faith? That's a kindergarten understanding of evangelism. All Christians are called to share their faith as a point of faithfulness, not gifting (Matt. 28:19).

see thoughts as mental events—like clouds in the sky—and helping you to cultivate an attitude of acceptance, compassion and empathy toward yourself and others.

The quality of mindfulness is not a neutral or blank presence. True mindfulness is imbued with warmth, compassion, and interest. In the light of this engaged attention, we discover it is impossible to hate or fear anything or anyone we truly understand. The nature of mindfulness is engagement: where there is interest, a natural, unforced attention follows.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

I've learned, sometimes in very difficult situations, to operate confidently in paradox.

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare. The