Quotes About Understanding

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.

At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't see any virtue in the other side's point of view.

Love is bumping along together with the people in your life and making mistakes and trying to make them right by virtue of the fact that these are people you actually love; you care about them enough to muddle through it with them.

Failing to see the point is not a virtue.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

Respect all manner of men regardless of their station in life. Compassion is one of the greatest virtues.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

I think many of the virtues and values of the army are very similar to the virtues and values of socialism, of the Labour Party. It's about looking out for each other, it's about working as a team, it's about understanding.

The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous and our need to understand our experiences on a subconscious level.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for, not the person who's ill.

As mechanistic biologists, we are hoping that by understanding how the virus works at the molecular level, we will be able to predict with more accuracy how it will evolve.

It's critical that we engage the federal scientific community to further our understanding of COVID-19 as we work to keep communities safe and reduce the spread of the virus.

Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.

The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.