Quotes About Understanding

We were very clear that this film's [Young Adam] so much about a relationship that's borne out through the sexual contact, and that that's the way they communicate.

It often happens that when couples get their relationship to God straightened out, their relationships with one another begin to straighten out as well.

I'm a father of four girls and I know very much about the relationship between a father and his daughters.

The relationship is the communication bridge between people.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

Love makes clear the eyes that else would never see: "Love makes blind the eyes to all but me and thee.

We read to know we're not alone.

We read to know we're not alone.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look -- these the patient understands.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

Ask not what disease the person has, but rather what person the disease has

Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Let us try what love will do.

Knowledge is the Treasure, but Judgment the Treasurer of a Wise Man.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.