Quotes About Understanding

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

They're good people. I have a lot of Jewish friends.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don't have your day.

Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.

The phrase "Be Good to Each Other" is very important to me and something that I wish had been said more when I was in high school.

You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

My father is schizophrenia, but he's good people.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

For the people who believe, you don't have to explain, and for the people who don't believe, no explanation is good enough.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.