Quotes About Understanding

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

One of the more curious facts about human beings is that they can spend a day of introspection without discovering what is obvious to anyone who has spent a half hour in their company.

Knowledge is never in doubt. Wisdom is never certain.

Do not get angry, stubborn, and imperious. Get curious.

If a plethora of learning with a paucity of teaching is an approach to heaven and a plethora of teaching with a paucity of learning an approach to hell, the devil is hard at work in our educational systems.

What is a question but a moment of discontent in pursuit of understanding? What is an answer but a moment of illusion in our flight from ignorance?

Right is not this or that doctrine or opinion; right is rational discussion about shared experience between honorable people leading to mutual understanding and tolerance.

Seindah apa pun huruf terukir, dapatkah ia bermakna apabila tak ada jeda? Dapatkah ia dimengerti jika tak ada spasi? Bukankah kita baru bisa bergerak jika ada jarak? Dan saling menyayang bila ada ruang? Kasih sayang akan membawa dua orang semakin berdekatan, tapi ia tak ingin mencekik, jadi ulurlah tali itu.

Asmara. Tidak bisa dipahami, cuma bisa dirasakan akibatnya.

Berhenti mencari maka kamu akan menemukan -Akar

Persahabatan memang obat sakit nomor satu.

Pertama-tama, dengan mengetahui apa itu cinta, kita akan mengetahui Tuhan. Dan ketika kita mengetahui Tuhan, kita juga jadi tahu apa itu cinta. Itulah cinta, itulah Tuhan. Pengalaman, bukan penjelasan. Perjalanan, bukan tujuan. Pertanyaan, yang sungguh tidak berjodoh dengan segala jawaban.

Mereka yang tidak paham dahsyatnya api akan mengobarkannya dengan sembrono. Mereka yang tidak paham akan energi cinta akan meledakkannya dengan sia-sia.

Cinta yang sampai di titik tertentu akan mengaburkan ego. Kebahagiaan istrinya berarti kebahagiaannya. Begitu pun dengan kesengsaraan.

Mau manusia mau ET, saya rasa itu hukum universal. Intention speaks louder than any code.

The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume.

I was thinking this was a great teaching moment, where they'd finally come to see that even something teeny-tiny can be big enough.

Sometimes the word 'gratitude' feels too thin to explain things.

Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in the way of the fundamental principle that we are similar to, connected with, and part of everything else.

Walk with those who are looking for the truth, run from those who think they have found it.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.