Quotes About Understanding

If we are going to love, we will be able to love someone else even if we never get what we want.

Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.

This is one of the principal reasons people seek out spiritual teachers. They figure there is more to most things than meets the eye.

Intuition is not a special source of ineffable insight: it is the womb of articulated understanding.

Most salespeople think that selling is "closing." It isn't. Selling is opening.

People understand this about physical disabilities. Someone with a broken leg will not, for that reason alone, be denied a job that requires typing. We are comfortable with the idea that physical health is not just a single number but a multiplicity of factors. That's where we need to arrive about mental problems, too.

The point of industry analysis is not to declare the industry attractive or unattractive but to understand the underpinnings of competition and the root causes of profitability. P.29

Faith requires knowledge, for we cannot believe in what we do not know. But it also requires commitment: we must place our entire weight on what we claim to know.

There's something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.

There will Be a Moment when Your eyes meet, and everything in the world will be simple again.

Those who still think that listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all.

If justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public, then patience is what mercy sounds like out loud, and forgiveness is the accent with which grace speaks.

What gives me so much pause, and makes me feel so badly, [is] that the country is willing to be that intolerant and not understand the empathy that's necessary to understand other groups' situations.

Whites must understand that they benefit from white privilege in order to realize how white privilege creates the space for black oppression.

Black and white people don't merely have different experiences; we seem to occupy different universes, with worldviews that are fatally opposed to one another.

The key to loving relationships, research has found, is what's called "emotional responsiveness." This is just what it sounds like: being there for the people around you, not physically, but in an emotionally engaged way. This applies not just to romantic relationships, but to friendships as well.

Do not refer to your toy-books, and say you have seen that before. Answer me rather, if I ask you, have you understood it before?

Studiando, noi diventiamo tutti filosofi; dovrete dunque avvezzarvi, ogni volta che un risultato vi sorprende, specialmente quando questo risultato vi par nuovo, dovrete avvezzarvi, dico, a chiedere a voi stessi o ad altri: «Quale è la causa di ciò? Perché le cose succedono a questo modo?» E presto o tardi finirete sempre col trovare la risposta.

He was never once bored. He wasn't sure, he said, that he even understood the concept of boredom. It applied only to people who felt they had to be doing something all the time, which from what he'd observed was most people. Hermits of ancient China had understood that wu wei, "non-doing," was an essential part of life, and Knight believes there isn't nearly enough nothing in the world anymore.

He wasn't sure, he said, that he even understood the concept of boredom. It applied only to people who felt they had to be doing something all the time, which from what he'd observed was most people.

Those with less become content," says the Tao, "those with more become confused." The

We didn't feel the need to communicate everything all the time," Chris continued. "We're not emotionally bleeding all over each other. We're not touchy-feely.

Von der Mühll devotes almost all his time to the case, trying not to be overly menacing or judgmental. "I can't excuse that, but I can understand," is a phrase the detective is fond of saying.