Quotes About Understanding

La perfection n'existe pas ; la comprendre est le triomphe de l'intelligence humaine ; la désirer pour la posséder est la plus dangereuse des folies. P 29

Je connais peu les femmes; mais il me semble qu'il est difficile qu'on admire ce qu'on ne comprend pas

Le ciel m'en est témoin, dès le premier moment, Je compris que l'aimer était peine inutile ; Et cependant mon coeur prit un amer plaisir À sentir qu'il aimait et qu'il allait souffrir !

Try walking a mile in your enemy's shoes. You'll be a mile away and you'll have his shoes.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter." - Alfred Eisenstaedt

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 NIV

first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye" (Matt. 7:5).

Remember Matthew 5:25 ("Make friends quickly with your opponent") and Matthew 5:44 ("Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you").

The goal of conflict resolution is to cultivate unity and peace, not to win or prove you are right.

Be quick to forgive (Matt. 18:21–35).

A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle" (Prov. 18:19 NKJV).

You think that somehow they didn't come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill? Then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as to not understand what's going on in Washington, D.C.

That is all that we want, what people want, what people want in New York, in Washington, in Pittsburgh, in any other place in the United States or in Europe. People want to live peacefully. That's what we want.

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.

Jason Rezaian, held for 544 days in Iran, was not a spy but rather a 'Washington Post' journalist whose work aimed to increase cultural understanding between Iran and the world.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

Real men don't listen. I think you can waste a lot of valuable time listening to what people are saying to you and, let's face it, it's rarely interesting or important.

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

We need to maybe think a little less about the science of building walls and that waste of time and energy and start to understand what is love.

I don't waste time despising people.

I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.

If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.

There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it's all a lot of nonsense, then it's a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding.