Quotes About Understanding

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

I realized that if I had said to them, "You had that young man turned out of the carriage because he had a second-class ticket," they would have nodded and said, "Yes," and if I had gone on and said, "But you yourselves have only second-class tickets," they would not have seen that the second statement had any bearing on the first; and I cannot picture to myself the mental life of people who cannot perceive that connexion.

Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.

Nothing we can do together is ever going to be embarrassing.

Many of us would like to see an end to discrimination of all kinds, happier families, and a safer, more harmonious future for our children. But how can we as individuals make a difference? We can begin by learning to listen in a mindful way. Listening is the first step in making people feel valued. Mindful listening allows us to do more than take in peoples words; it helps us better understand the how and why of their views.

Here's an alarming fact: of approximately eight hundred thousand words in the English language, we use about eight hundred on a regular basis. Those eight hundred words have fourteen thousand meanings. By division there are about seventeen meanings per word. In other words, we have a one-in-seventeen chance of being understood as we intended. Perhaps you've heard of Chisholm's Third Law—If you explain something so clearly that no one can misunderstand, someone will.

A good listener is not only one who processes the spoken word and the meaning behind the words accurately, but one who makes the speaker feel valued by encouraging him to expand on his ideas and feelings. A good listener touches the lives of those to whom he listens.

Listening intently even for a minute is one of the nicest gifts we can give to another human being.

If you cannot find the truth where you are, Where do you expect to find it? —Master Dogen

Villagers saw me as a person when I played with them, as opposed to when I talked with them.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

History is important not only as a record of the past but also as a guide to the present. We need to know where we have come from in order to better understand where we are heading.

You can't manage people to be on the same page; you have to live together on the same page.

People need to know what they need to know when they need to know it.

Everybody needs someone who knows their name, and what's happening in their life So,

I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.

Responsive teaching and assessing means we are always teaching for understanding, continuously checking for understanding, and adjusting instruction as needed.

It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about. We mutter; we fumble; we blush; we purchase plush toys. None of it makes sense.

How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase book.

There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex. 'She knows Chesterton.' 'She lives,' said Alex.

Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?