Quotes About Understanding

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

The desire to reach hearts is wise

When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.

It's vital to understand that while you are alive, there is no end to desire, since the seed of your every thought and your every action is a desire.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.

Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.

I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

You are someone; that's enough. Everybody's feelings are ultimately the same. The desire to be special, to be wanted, to be seen. That's the same, too.

Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.

..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.