Quotes About Understanding

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way...We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

For as we stretch & strain to look through the various windows into the past, we do not merely see a bygone people hunting, fishing, painting their bodies, & dancing their dances. If we look long enough, if we dwell on their joy, fear, & reverence, we may in the end catch glimpses of almost forgotten aspects of our own selves.

The point is, could God pass an examination in Theology?

The best vision is insight.

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

I remember once being asked by an American, "Does everyone in your country still sleep in trees?" And I replied, "Yes." He was overjoyed (or at least seemed so) at meeting someone who had slept in a tree. But when I added that in our capital city of Ouagadougou the ambassador of the United States sleeps in the tallest tree, he walked away confused and a bit suspicious. Americans are bred to expect the rest of the world to be underdeveloped. The

I've found that sitting in silence and focusing the mind is the most meaningful and effective way to incubate intents, because it provides access to a deeper well of understanding, insight, and awareness. To

Yes, only a fool would have slipped into her deepest reaches and grasped the woman within. The whole of her so fine and glorious, he had reverently fondled each nuance of her mind.

She's perfect for our purposes, Urich." "There's no doubt of that in my mind, Raven," he asserted in fluid English,

Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.

When did we stop being people, being human?

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

What was it about the differences in others that scared some people so much?

And just like that, I'd been assessed and judged. Nurse Fashoda didn't know the first thing about me but she'd taken one look at my face and now she reckoned she knew my whole life story -- what had gone before and what was yet to come.

Sorry implies that if you could go back, you'd do things differently. We both know that you wouldn't change a thing.

His eyes were a lot older than fifteen.

Maybe we are in different places …' 'No, we aren't. Not if we don't want to be, we aren't.' I willed Callum to look at me. 'I wish it was that simple.' 'It is.

Why had I thought of it that way? As a friendship both of us needed? That didn't make any sense at all.