Quotes About Understanding

Without humility there can be no humanity.

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

We are blind to each other's humanity.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.

Every human heart is human.

Humanity is the equity of the heart.

The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

I'm amazed at how Muslims keep their humanity after reading the Koran.

I think humans will find their humanity sometime, somehow.

Hate is holding back humanity from its full potential.

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.