Quotes About Understanding

The same goes for such nonsense sentences as "Time is a concept", "Infinity is a concept", and "God is a concept". Those are all category errors.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together.

This message is so simple, yet it gets forgotten. The people living with the condition are the experts.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

As playwright Wilson Mizner observed, "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Philosophy is an operation that of itself produces nothing; it operates on the basis of truths subtracted from the event.

Questioning helps people gain perspective and understand the perspectives of others. As they see issues and problems from different points of view, they gain an appreciation for their complexity—and also expand the range of possible solutions.

Statistics don't appeal to our need to understand cause and effect, which is why they are so frequently ignored or misinterpreted. Stories, on the other hand, are a rich means to communicate precisely because they emphasize cause and effect.

Our minds have an amazing ability to create a narrative that explains the world around us, an ability that works particularly well when we already know the answer.

El mayor desafío al que nos vamos a enfrentar en los próximos diez, quince o veinte años es el de retomar la senda de una conversación cívica en la que, si yo digo que esto es una silla, todos estamos de acuerdo en que es una silla. Podemos discrepar sobre si es una buena silla, sobre si deberíamos cambiarla o no, sobre si queremos moverla hacia aquí o hacia allí, pero no podemos decir que es un elefante.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

Prejudice is ignorance.

Surak teaches us to find order in chaos," Spock pointed out. "He does not teach us to try to eliminate chaos or impose order on it.

Many of the modeling mistakes are modeler's poor listening skills.

If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet, of harmony, of peace, of an end to war, of mutual understanding, of equality, of fairness… I expect it will come from the artists. – Karl Paulnack, 2004

Empathy is the engine that drives design.

It must be nice, Queenie thought, to be one thing or another, to know where you belonged.

Even now, running for the most powerful position on the planet, a job that relies almost entirely on the power to persuade those around you, a job heavy on running a team and winning loyalty, even now Donald J. Trump said he made most of his decisions by himself, consulting no one: "I understand life," he said. "And I understand how life works. I'm the Lone Ranger." He

If you can't forgive someone you're close to for making a mistake, then why do apologies even exist?

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

Consequently, no idea – no complete series of answers to why-questions – can ever be an object of human knowledge. Yet, Kant argues, without ideas morality would be impossible:

Kimse mükemmel de?ildir. Ba?kalar?n? affetti?inde asl?nda kendini affedersin.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.