Quotes About Understanding

What you hear of me is more a reflection of the speaker than the woman spoken of, especially with regard to my motives. No one can speak for another's heart. Certainly no one ever spoke with accuracy for mine!

What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

Zoals we het verleden nu beschrijven was het niet, en zoals het was zullen we het niet kunnen beschrijven.

If Jesus Christ treated me like you do, I'd drive in the nails myself.

Kate had never been married, so she had no way of knowing if I was a normal husband. This has been good for our marriage.

I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

Know your enemy — and learn about his favorite sport.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his kin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than the opposite.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

It was a useful reminder that all men, even the most seemingly cold-blooded, have a core of decency, and that if their heart is touched, they are capable of changing.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

if you talk to a man in a second language , your talking to his brain ,if you talk to him in his mother language you're talking to his heart -

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and apsirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry or savour their songs. I again realized that we were not different people with separate languages; we were one people, with different tongues.

To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy, and that enemy becomes one's partner.

I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there was mercy and generosity.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite

It never hurts to see the good in someone, they often act the better because of it.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart

Niemand wordt geboren met haat jegens iemand vanwege zijn huidskleur, zijn afkomst of zijn godsdienst. Als mensen het haten kunnen leren, kunnen ze ook leren liefhebben, want liefde bereikt het hart van de mens veel vanzelfsprekender dan haat.

to truly lead one's people one must also truly know them.

It reminded me once again that truly to lead one's people one must also truly know them.