Quotes About Understanding

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.

If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

Don't resent, fear, or judge the next generation, believe in them.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as 'them' but 'us'.

Fear only exists when you do not understand that you have the power to project thought and that the Universe will respond.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.

Fear dims when you learn things.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

I am never afraid of what I know.

We fear only what we haven't understood.

Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.

Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.

Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.

Fear is the brother of hate.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Much of the fear of doing something wrong vanishes when we are knowledgeable about what we are doing.