Quotes About Understanding

As Plato wrote long ago, the only people who will no longer see war are the dead. Which, of course, is precisely why we need to understand it as best we can.

In dealing with objections, as with differences of opinion, nothing is gained by confrontation, though much is to be gained by appreciation of the other's viewpoint. Most objections you hear are best handled by first demonstrating your understanding of the other's viewpoint. Always start your response with 'I understand' or 'I can appreciate your position' or 'I see your point' or 'of course' followed by 'However' or 'Also consider' or a similar line that puts you back into consideration.

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

I've realized that a lot of life is not what you say,see,it's what you don't say.People have to make up their own minds then.It's like a game, and only we know the rules.

Hindsight really is a fucking wonderful thing.

Now she knew why her mum had kept such a close eye on her; she wasn't interfering as such, she had just understood that there were people in this world who were capable of causing great hurt as well as great sadness for young girls.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in all those who take advice Proverbs 13:10

Why did you have to lose something before you could fully appreciate it?

She had always been the voice of reason, had been the one who smoothed over quarrels and made sure that they remembered they were family. Stopped the fights before they began and reminded them that, at the end of the day, each other was all that any of them really had. As close as they were, they had all fallen out big time over the years. She had been the voice of reason.

But she wanted her mother to know that she did love her. All day, every day, she loved her.

His mother had always said, 'We are all guilty of something even if it is only laziness or ignorance.' He had never understood what she meant till now.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.' – 1 Corinthians 13:11 'The children of perdition are oft'times made instruments even of the greatest work.' – Ben Jonson, 1637-1673

Glad that if nothing else he had learned one thing. You couldn't protect your kids properly until you understood exactly what you were supposed to be protecting them from.

the implication was there for anyone to hear.

She was his Achilles heel because deep inside he loved her, really loved her, and he knew that once she had loved him. Adored him even. Until she had sussed him out.

I have observed that you treat a man as an old garment to be taken apart and stitched again. Perhaps you could think of him as good cloth, rich fabric that wants only to be embroidered upon. And perhaps, if you will do that, you will see that you love Tailor yourself.

There are some who come willingly," I said, as if I had not heard him, "not out of love, but out of sickness and sadness and a lack of understanding. He wanted none of them. And so he waited without waiting, and dreamed of what he could not imagine, and performed his terrible work and lived only in the moments out of which eternity is spun, knowing it was hopeless.

She learned that there is a cruelty in the world. She did not yet understand that those who hurt others do so because they believe that people desire to hurt them. She did not know yet that such people suffer more than the ones they hurt, for they must live in their own skin, in a world of their own making, a world full of enemies.

Now listen, and love me anyway.

Love was life's secret purpose.

These days, training is increasingly about getting a horse to work "with" us instead of "for" us, and that takes knowledge, not just of what a horse can do and be made to do, but how a horse thinks and can learn to trust us.

So my pain is pain for you, in your joy is my joy too...

What really matters in sex isn't the things you can measure; it's how people feel, which is a lot harder to explore, understand, measure, or fix.

When you shift your focus from getting grades to gaining understanding, you set yourself on the road to mastery. You begin learning how to learn.