Quotes About Understanding

Bear patiently with a rival.

The rest who does not know?

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.

True understanding is unattainable without both love and detachment,

Therefore it is only people living in the same period and, broadly speaking, in the same community, who inhabit the same world. People living in other periods, or even at the same period but in a totally different community, do not inhabit the same world about which they have different ideas, they inhabit different worlds altogether.

Nobody who understands the amount of pain and energy which go to the creation of new instruments of thought can feel anything but respect for the philosophy of the Middle Ages.

Understanding what another human being says to us is always a matter of translation.

Plato had to make the tremendous effort (it is one of the most exhausting which man is called on to exert) of turning a vague feeling into a clear thought.

Wordsworth's called The Tables Turned: Sweet is the lore which nature brings: Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things— We murder to dissect.

To give another person the benefit of the doubt was about as difficult an everyday task as anyone faced.

So I perceived a new example of the old truth, that the letter means nothing until the spirit gives it life.

I didn't have a clue what love was about until I met Sharon.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.

It was like his entire body was having a conversation with Justin's body, though they were barely touching.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

A human moment occurs anytime two or more people are together, paying attention to one another. — Edward M. Hallowell (p. 34)

In the midst of a culture that glorifies indulgent, self-expression, we may find…that when we find the strength to engage in considerate listening we are in fact expressing ourselves. At our best (p. 53).

we can learn to love. How do we do that? …First things first. First we discipline our ego to look beyond the narrow confines of its immediate needs; then we will have a change to understand what real love is. First manners, then love (pp.19-20).

when something seems complicated, we do not understand it, but when we do understand something, it has become simple.

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