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Quotes About Understanding

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
~ Joni Mitchell
Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you.
~ Morgan Llywelyn
A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
~ Andre Gide
So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.
~ David Levithan
Journal became a sanctuary where I could pour out in honesty my pain and joy. It recorded my footsteps and helped me understand where I was standing, where I had been, and even where God pointed.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.
~ Veronica Roth
We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.
~ William Jennings Bryan
There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Everyone honors the wise.
~ Aristotle
Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.
~ Kabir
Honor your parents by not judging them. Give them the benefit of doubt.
~ Michael Jackson
The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
~ Thomas Carlyle
For straight, hetero people it's very easy to unintentionally say something that might not honor people's identities fully, and Grace Dunham is a really amazing educational resource.
~ Lena Dunham
Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.
~ Paul Weyrich
We must have a deep understanding of Who is the source of our blessings and to whom all the glory, praise and honor belong.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Maybe in death you'll understand that love, and all other needs take a backseat when the one thing you want, stands against all that you swear to protect.
~ Charles Lee, The Way To Dawn
Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
~ Patricia Polacco
I hope they understand that I really understand That they don't understand
~ Kid Cudi