Quotes About Understanding

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

All that you can imagine you already know.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

I'll not punish you for having an imagination.

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.