Quotes About Understanding

Alas, in our age, some arrogantly believe that if they cannot comprehend something, then God cannot comprehend it, either.

When we feel so alone, we cannot presume to teach him who, at the apogee of his agony, trod "the winepress alone" anything about feeling forsaken.

Perhaps our difficulties with receiving justified reproof stem from out thinking of love as being all sweetness. Love surely includes sweetness. But love must sometimes be tough love, sinew as well as sweetness. So it is with loving communication, also.

You mustn't judge them so harshly. Everyone has a right to their own beliefs no matter how imbecilic.

Fucking supercilious Polity minds. They could be so super intelligent, but they had no real idea about her. About the alliances, responsibilities, commitments and the sheer difficulty involved in relinquishing something she'd fought so hard to build, and it had no appreciation of just how vulnerable she'd be if she let it go. They never went through anything like this—just adjusted themselves either physically or mentally to suit current circumstances.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Compassion compels us to go further in love.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.

Astronomers always work in the past; because light takes time to move from one place to another, they see things as they were, not as they are.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love. The same holds true for music.

For this reason, 1808 is also an essential date for understanding the making of African American culture. Kidnapped Africans had been arriving for almost two hundred years, repeatedly re-Africanizing American culture. No longer.

Apathy in the face of continual violence is something someone who has never lived through a war cannot understand.

We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.

People who find dating confusing and bewildering almost always lack familiarity with themselves.

When two people fail to overlap on anything really important, all kinds of problems can develop.

Men and women who know themselves well stand an excellent chance of selecting a mate well suited to them.

If you want to win this world to Christ, you are going to have to sit in the smoking section. That is where lost people are found, and if you make them put their cigarette out to hear the message they will be thinking about only one thing: "When can I get another cigarette?

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.