Quotes About Understanding

You never can expect what people's reactions are going to be. You can only hope that everyone feels the way that you do.

I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.

My 22-year-old [son] can see everything I've done, but my 15-year-old hasn't been able to see anything, at all. But yeah, I hope I'm a super cool dad.

We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey.

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

A unique human trait is that we try to find meaning in the things that happen to us.

We talk, even if no one listens, because we never know when someone will.

Logic cannot comprehend love

When you get right down to it, we don't ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where there's mystery, there's hope.

~ Tolerance increases hope between people and their voice of conscience.

We only get either A Lesson or A Miracle.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

He who understands humanity seeks solitude

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity.

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.