Quotes About Understanding

Às vezes, as línguas fazem-nos ser.

Afinal, eu estava como dizia o cantador da aldeia: no sossego, sou cego; na timaca (confusão) não vejo

Porque aqui você precisa de calar a sua sabedoria para sobreviver. Conhece a diferença entre o sábio branco e o sábio preto? A sabedoria do branco mede-se pela pressa com que responde. Entre nós o mais sábio é aquele que mais demora a responder. Alguns são tão sábios que nunca respondem.

O velho acenou fingindo perceber. Fica mal um homem perguntar explicação de prosa alheia.

How can educators start to learn more about the home worlds of their actual students rather than learning generic information about the "groups" from which students come?

plus on est capable de nommer ce que l'on vit, plus on est à même de le vivre et apte à le changer.

He longed for company. He was cruel because he didn't know whether or not people felt pain and he wanted to find out and also he wanted to give them his pain to keep for their own.

people around you filter information, often with good intentions.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem." —G. K. Chesterton

Because finding the differences upon which we can hang hatred is much easier than discovering the common ground that can unite.

You can't hear a whisper if you're constantly shouting.

At every major step, physics has required, and frequently stimulated, the introduction of new mathematical tools and concepts. Our present understanding of the laws of physics, with their extreme precision and universality, is only possible in mathematical terms.

We treat others badly not because we don't understand how people should be treated but because we don't really consider them people.

it could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, lovin you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars, tell me who i have to be, to get some reciprocity..

We assume that people want to do a good job. When they don't, we assume that something happened to them to make them do otherwise.

The investigator is an interpreter (second order) of the interpretations people have already given to their lives (first order).

Let's start this feeling, this mental posture, fraternity, to see in each human being a brother.

Mr. Jimmy and

God does not "work in strange ways," alas, but in ways that are perfectly familiar.

In that moment I saw the part of the man that makes me feel pity: he has no ability to walk in other people's shoes, to see the world from another perspective, from Puerto Rico to the NFL.

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

And I was reminded of something I learned from another mentor, my first boss after I graduated, Massimo Vignelli, who once described the difference between complication and complexity. A love affair that's complex is wonderful, he said, but a love affair thats complicated is a disaster.

Fundamentalism is disastrously destructive because it is an inhibition of the very human impulse to understand, a closure of the process of education, a betrayal of the capacity that human beings have to think and act together. It is wrong because it tries to stop not just thought, but the society which makes thought possible.

The pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.