Quotes About Understanding

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.

When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

Dreams are the language of God.

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

An eye for an eye....we are all blind

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.