Quotes About Understanding

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If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor—it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. And history teaches us that enmities between nations, as between individuals, do not last forever . . .

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

So, let us not be blind to our differences- but let us also direct our attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature.

the book of Daniel is the key to prophetic interpretation, and proper understanding of its revelation would do much to help the interpretation of other prophetic portions.

Daniel's prophetic revelation is the key to understanding the Olivet Discourse (Matt. 24–25) as well as the book of Revelation, which is to the New Testament what Daniel is to the Old.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

You're not me. You can't feel like I feel. I can feel. No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine. It's not fine. It's just not so bad.

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

You may wonder how I had not seen it before. I believe I had. But to see something is not the same as to acknowledge it.

Just because you can't express your feelings it doesn't mean they're not deep.

How I hate ignorance! Caliban's ignorance, my ignorance, the world's ignorance! Oh, I could learn and learn and learn and learn. I could cry, I want to learn so much.

Ideeea ca ne plac oamenii este o iluzie pe care trebuie s-o pastram in noi daca vrem sa traim in societate. Dar eu am expulzat-o de mult, cel putin cat traiesc aici. Tu vrei sa fii iubit? Eu ma multumesc pur si simplu sa fiu, sa exist. Poate intr-o zi ai sa inteegi si tu ce inseamana asta. Si ai sa zambesti. Un zambet aprobator, un zambet sarcastic.

She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands. 'You're being very silent.' 'That's how men cry.

As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

If you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...) body that destination finally acquires owes quite as much to the reader as to the writer.

Love is something that comes in different clothes, with a different way and different face, and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it, to be able to call it love.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. It

A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.