Quotes About Understanding

Discussing and dissecting opposing viewpoints with others on Twitter opened up a whole new way of thinking for me.

Our society needs to become less fragmented and more open to alternative viewpoints.

The president needs to be a figure that unites Singaporeans. In order to do that, he needs to be someone who not only understands the viewpoints held by the establishment, but those held by the other more divergent sectors of society.

I absolutely do not divide people into any religions, creeds, political views.

Everybody has views in life, and it should be respected.

I respect someone's right to air their views whether they are wrong or right.

If there are differences of views or divergence of ideas, they can be resolved through discussion and dialogue.

Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.

Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

I think it is important that we respect that women have different political views.

I live in places where, although I don't take public stands, I'm surrounded by liberals, and I've spent a lot of time in this country talking to people who have very different views than the people I live around and trying to see kind of what's in common beneath those conversations.

I know Eric Schmidt, and he has different political views from mine. But I think he's a terrific guy.

I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

A political conversation is a conversation in which people with different views come to agreements about how they're going to inhabit this society together.

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

Republicans aren't bad people. They've got some views that are legitimate... and I'd like to think they believe the same of me.

In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.

I lived through many battles - the 1973, I was young; in 1982 with the Israeli invasions, and 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. Before I emigrated to the States in '83, I had my own very black and white views of the Israelis and the Jews in general. But you start to understand that no matter what you think, there are two perspectives.