Quotes About Understanding

Because if civilization is going to last, if it's going to amount to anything more than just a place to watch TV and get cheap snake meat, it will only be because we've learned to do one thing.' 'And what's that?' 'To care for people who mean nothing to us.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Because mythic images (and little mythic narrative) have been incorporated and refracted through the textual lens of the various genres, these genres offer only a glimpse of the larger understanding.

Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).

A key prerequisite to thinking and writing funny is understanding funny. And

When Satyagraha worked, both sides won.

All my actions have their source in my inalienable love of humankind.

I can navigate the canals of self-delusion, say, like nobody's business. The less certain something is, the more I understand it; the less tangible it is, the more readily my fingers grasp it. Just give me a little shove down the byways of regret, and I'm in my element. Which

We own nothing in our lives but perspective.

Yet Yogi Bhajan describes mastery of this practice as arising from teaching it: "If you want to learn something," he says, "read it. If you want to know something, write it. If you want to MASTER something, Teach it!" (Bhajan).

This is the last time you'll read the phrase "his or her" or "he or she"; from this point on, I'll use one or the other pronoun and assume you understand that any sex could apply.

Closing the asylums has not brought us any closer to working out how we should respond to mental illness. We still prefer to think that out of mind should mean out of sight.

They are our children. We owe it to them to arm them with good knowledge, model healthy relationships, and understand that the relationships they see in the movies, on TV, and hear about in songs are usually not real and not healthy.

But most people are essentially good. You have to believe that." "Even the Nazis?" Father Re hesitated, and then said, "I can't explain the Nazis. I don't think the Nazis can explain the Nazis.

Right there—listening and complimenting—you're ahead of eighty percent of every guy on the face of the earth.

arms around Pino. "Do you forgive me?

we can't stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we're frightened.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.