Quotes About Understanding

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Islam is not about "we're better than you". Rather it is about "let me show you something that is better for you

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.

Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.