Quotes About Understanding

How can I enter into dialogue if I always project ignorance onto others and never perceive my own?...How can I enter into dialogue if I am closed to - and even offended by - the contribution of others? At the point of encounter there are neither yet ignoramuses nor perfect sages; there are only people who are attempting, together, to learn more than they now know.

If I do not love the world, if I do not love life, if I do not love people, I cannot enter into dialogue.

El educador ya no es solo el que educa sino aquel que, en tanto que educa, es educado a través del diálogo con el educando, quien, al ser educado, también educa. [...] Nadie educa a nadie, así como tampoco nadie se educa a sí mismo, las personas se educan entre sí con el mundo como mediador.

Actually, what the rejected ones need—those forbidden to be, prevented from being—is not our tepidity but our warmth, our solidarity—yes, and our love, but an unfeigned love, not a mistrustful one, not a soppy love, but an 'armed' love.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Aceptar y respetar la diferencia es una de esas virtudes sin las cuales la escucha no se puede dar" (Paulo Freire)

ÖÄŸretmen öÄŸretmelidir. Bunu yapmak zorundad?r. Ama öÄŸretmek bilgiyi aktarmak deÄŸildir. Bir eyleme öÄŸretme eylemi denebilmesi için, öÄŸrenme eyleminin öÄŸrencilerin ayn? zamanda kendilerine öÄŸretilen bilgiyi üreten kiÅŸiler haline geldikleri, içeriÄŸi ya da bilinebilir nesneyi kavrama eyleminden önce ya da onunla eÅŸ zamanl? olarak gerçekleÅŸmesi gerekir.

A consciência é essa misteriosa e contraditória capacidade que tem o homem de distanciar-se das coisas para fazê-las presentes, imediatamente presentes.

The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people, whom he or she continues to regard as totally ignorant, is grievously self-deceived.

O diálogo é o encontro dos homens para Ser Mais

To begin always anew, to make, to reconstruct, and to not spoil, to refuse to bureaucratize the mind, to understand and to live life as a process—live to become

For the dialogical, problem-posing teacher-student, the program content of education is neither a gift nor an imposition—bits of information to be deposited in the students—but rather the organized, systematized, and developed "re-presentation" to individuals of the things about which they want to know more.

Consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality.

How can I enter into dialogue if I always project ignorance onto others and ignore my own? How can I enter into dialogue if I regard myself as a case apart from other men [sic]?

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Aimer quelqu'un ne veut pas forcément dire l'aimer d'amour. Tu aimes tes amis comme des amis… mais aimer d'amour, c'est autre chose. Tu sais, il y a beaucoup de manières d'aimer. Parfois, l'amitié peut évoluer en amour parce que la frontière entre les deux est très floue.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work