Quotes About Understanding

We learn to acquire knowledge and with wisdom, we apply it.

Every animal knows more than you do. Nez Perce

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

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Like a Gypsy, like a witch, like Mama, she knew how to see things in a person that they'd just as soon forget.

When a man is rich, whether in gold or in knowledge, he must treat the poverty of others with consideration.

At my age, only naivete still manages to scandalize me sometimes.

You could read a dozen large tomes on the history of Islam from its very beginnings and you still wouldn't understand what is going on in Algeria. But read 30 pages on colonialism and decolonisation and then you'll understand quite a lot.

Yaralar?n hissedilmesi için tan?mlanmaya ihtiyaçlar? yoktur.

I no more believe in simplistic solutions than I do in simplistic identieties. The world is a complex machine that can't be dismantled with a srewdriver. But that shouldn't prevent us from observing, from trying to understand, from discussing, and sometimes suggesting a subject for reflection.

AÄŸlamak bir çözüm deÄŸil. Bir beceri bile say?lmaz. Ç?plak, naif, ac?n?lacak bir jestten baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸil. Kimse zorla gözya?? dökmemeli. Tek önemli olan, ötekilerin trajedisini aÅŸa??lamamak.

Bana kötü deyip kötülük edeceksen, Ya Hüda, ne fark?n kal?r benden söyle.

Vous pourriez lire dix gros volumes sur l'histoire de l'islam depuis les origines, vous ne comprendriez rien à ce qui se passe en Algérie. Lisez trente pages sur la colonisation et la décolonisation, vous comprendrez beaucoup mieux

I came from here, you came from there. And now we're both sitting at the same table.

Le monde est une machine complexe qui ne se démonte pas avec un tournevis. Ce qui ne doit pas nous interdire d'observer, de chercher à comprendre, de spéculer, de discuter, de suggérer parfois telle ou telle voie de réflexion.

Hay mentiras de las que tienen más culpa los oídos que la boca.

By the age of seventeen I had accumulated information, then I learnt how to believe.

Writers do not write about places, they write about people who happen to live in those places. This is something that the labellers and their labels don't understand either.

I have been a lot of places in my time, and done a lot of things. And there is a sense of Prodigal about my life that begs to be resolved. But one truth anyone reading these pieces ought to get is the sense of movement--the struggle, in myself, to understand where and who I am, and to move with that understanding.

Internationalism' is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.

A map is not the territory and is not as interesting as the territory.

Blaming none, disrespecting nothing is the doorway to Unity Consciousness.