Quotes About Understanding

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person's eyes or to experience that person's feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.

We might say that there can be pity in its full-fledged form only where there is also mercy for self: for the self engulfed by a sense of its own utter blackness can never win through to a sufficient recognition of the sorrows of the other as other.

A certain kind of hunger. To know what happened and at least ask why. Because the tikkun can't start until everyone asks what happened — not just the Jews but everybody.

Mamma said that when you don't love someone one bit, you have to try to see them like Jesus would. It's a hard thing to do. Even Mamma has to squint sometimes.

You will never have all the answers, Millie. You will always have to seek the Lord and trust Him with things you don't understand. But trusting Him comes easier the longer you walk with Him, the more you understand how good and faithful He is.

Having a relationship with God isn't about doing the right thing, it's about loving him and learning to really understand how much he loves you

And this urge to run away from what I love is a sort of sadism I no longer pretend to understand.

On the night of New Year's Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year's resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

Five Human Truths." We need to be understood, feel special, feel as though we belong, feel that we're in control, and know that we have the chance to reach our potential

You can't really change the heart without telling a story.

For example, we must teach our children what it means to fear and love God (Prov. 1:7 and Matt. 22:37-40). They need to understand that their lives are, first of all, about a relationship with God.

I'm a firm believer that ultimately the truth cannot hurt you. It can bring you pain, heartache, and sadness but it cannot destroy the person you are. It can bring you understanding of whom and what you are.

Papa says folk will always hate what they do not understand; it is from ignorance.

However, I hold it admirable that this wife — your lady, sir — can find love and marriage consonant." I thought that sadness coloured her voice, and suddenly a series of pictures flashed on my mind's eye:

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

white boys] were so sure, so unbelievably sure that the way they understood the world was the way the world was.

Seeing the pattern, understanding the true nature of sociopathy, and, most crucially, possessing effective methods to thwart the sociopath's agenda will allow you to identify sociopathy confidently and respond with wise and powerful action when life absolutely requires you to take a stand.

you are rewarding and encouraging him each and every time you allow him to see your anger, your confusion, or your hurt.

and for every limitation conscience imposes on us, it gives us a moment of connectedness with an other, a bridge to someone or something outside of our often meaningless schemes.

If all you had ever felt toward another person were the cold wish to "win," how would you understand the meaning of love, of friendship, of caring? You would not understand. You would simply go on dominating, and denying, and feeling superior. Perhaps you would experience a little emptiness sometimes, a remote sense of dissatisfaction, but that is all.

I don't want to be human." Dr. Mensah said, "That's not an attitude a lot of humans are going to understand. We tend to think that because a bot or a construct looks human, its ultimate goal would be to become human." "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

I try to avoid asking humans if there's anything wrong with them. (Mostly because I don't care.)