Quotes About Understanding

How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

Books are humanity in print.

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.