Quotes About Understanding

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Nothing will change until we demolish the "we-they" mentality. We are human, and therefore all human concerns are ours. And those concerns are personal.

History must stay open, it is all humanity.

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation.

The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.

Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

If you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity.

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

Not even the Washington Post understands humanity.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.