Quotes About Understanding

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Love that cares, listens.

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

No self-acceptance is possible if one is not accepted in a person-to-person relation.

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

Tugas pertama mencintai adalah mendengar.

il confine è il luogo migliore per acquisire conoscenza.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man's being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. Although, in daily life, we do not always distinguish these words, we should do so consistently and thus deepen our understanding of our human predicament.

It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

I think of the presence and of the habits of mortals in this so fluid stream, and reflect that I was among them, striving to see all things just as I see them at this very moment. I then placed Wisdom in the eternal station which now is ours. But from here all is unrecognizable. Truth is before us, and we no longer understand anything at all.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.

Solo leemos verdaderamente a fondo lo que leemos por motivos personales. Puede ser que busquemos conseguir algún poder. Puede ser, simplemente, que odiemos al autor.

En iyi yap?t, gizini uzun süre saklayand?r. Uzun süre bir gizi oldu?u bile anla??lmaz.

Svaki filosofski Sistem gde Telo ?oveka ne igra jednu fundamentalnu ulogu, jeste nespretan, nesretan. Saznanje ima telo ?oveka za granicu.