Quotes About Understanding

Every single person you meet, Philo wrote, it's said—Everyone— is fighting a very great battle. Except that no one is able to find where he said it, or what he thought the burden might be that brings it on. Still, it's almost certainly true— and so he added, perhaps, be kind.

When people come into the office and say they've tried to make their marriage work, and I hear what the effort was, it seems to me that there's some lack of understanding of what effort is.

One needs to realize that the symptoms of vital depression are often not spontaneously mentioned Ã¢â'¬Â¦ They are often concealed by other symptoms which may seem to be more severe. They may not come to the patient's mind even with questioning. Patients admit to these symptoms only as the links of an integral whole in a dialogue that is free and comprehensible.

Ignorance is the enemy, curiosity the weapon of choice

Women never understand. We fall in love with their defects, not their perfection.

We need to increase public understanding of the need for MCMs such as a pan-influenza or pan-coronavirus vaccine. A key driver is the media, and the economics follow the hype. We need to use that hype to our advantage to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of process.

I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world.

Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.

They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

They never understood his ministry, the meaning of his life: that he had come to call, not sinners, but the righteous to repentance

I am not impressed by big words,' said my uncle, who was always ready enough to bandy 'predestination' and 'infralapsarianism.

There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Life is not about receiving. It is about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience

Reading the Bible responsibly and respectfully today means learning what it meant for ancient Israelites to talk about God the way they did, and not pushing alien expectations onto texts written long ago and far away.

Ours is a historical faith, and to uproot the Bible from its historical contexts is self-contradictory.

I think part of what it means for God to "reveal" himself is to keep us guessing, to come to terms with the idea that knowing God is also a form of not knowing God, of knowing that we cannot fully know, but only catch God in part—which is more than enough to keep us busy.

When you read the Bible on its own terms, you discover that it doesn't behave itself like a holy rulebook should.

The first question we should ask about what we are reading is not "How does this apply to me?" Rather, it is "What is this passage saying in the context of the book I am reading, and how would it have been heard in the ancient world?

Readers who come to the Bible expecting something more like an accurate textbook, a more-or-less objective recalling of the past—because, surely, God wouldn't have it any other way—are in for an uncomfortable read. But if they take seriously the words in front of them, they will quickly find that the Bible doesn't deliver on that expectation. Not remotely.