Quotes About Understanding

Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug em so tight they cant wiggle.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Come now, let us reason together.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

Truth attracts truth as time attracts time

Prayer isn't just about asking for things. It's taking time to hear what God is saying, too, just like any good conversation. Once we finally stop talking and demanding and begging for things, it's easier to hear what God is trying to say to us.

When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

But in a compromise, both people need to sacrifice something for the sake of the other person, and hopefully they'll both be happy with the outcome in the end. You're giving up being a pastor, but I'm not sure what exactly Caroline will be giving up.

but he knew that Hashem revealed His will through His Word.

If you truly understood the holiness of God, you would have a proper attitude about yourself.

I am a deep believer in the unknowability of other people

To say that he 'nailed a subject's soul to the canvas' makes the assumption that we persons, as well as artists, can see one another's souls. Maybe we do. Maybe we all have the ability to perceive another's soul, and do so every day, only we take it for granted, and don't even know it when we're doing it. We call it knowing someone's 'character' or 'personality.

Then again, I don't suppose the very poor care much about the doings of the rich, either. The gulf is too wide. Not many have been on both sides of it, as we have.

knowledge is as powerful, in its own way, as any magic, and that magic without knowledge is worse than useless; it is dangerous.

I want to come with you, but first you've got to give me a few straight answers." "It's against my nature, but I'll try.

These are Plenimaran marines, and there's not much most of them aren't capable of, if you take my meaning." "I don't think I do," said Alec, puzzled by Seregil's tone. "Then try this. They have a saying among them: 'When whores are few, a boy will do.' Got that?" "Oh." Alec felt his face go hot.

An apology is the superglue of life! It can repair just about anything!!

I can't tell you how nice it is to hear someone talking like the voices in my head," Abigail said, linking arms with Jessica and heading toward the battlement door. "You'll have to come visit—a lot. Miles will love it." "Did you tell him about me?" "He guessed." "He didn't!" "Not much gets past the man.

Where Buddhist teachings contradict science, science should prevail,