Quotes About Understanding

The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking it literally. The Bible does not present us with material that is ridiculous in the context from which it came. The Bible springs from the context in which people then were thinking, searching, and trying to find answers .

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy.

Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.

We can only receive what our minds are capable of accepting.

The understanding of fear cures fear.

Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my fault, but I couldn't "BELIEVE" it! Then I was talking to my friend Kieran and he explained to me in a way that I could PERCEIVE that I was not at fault. No one else could ever do that before, though many tried. Many, many people had tried to tell me it wasn't my fault, but I was convinced it was my fault because I was trying to cheer up my dad.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

STREETER: Let's just not argue. You can call me stupid, all right. I can call you a coward, all right. It's just I believe one thing, you believe something else. I think the world's got an outside chance, you believe it hasn't. That's all.

he finds himself stuck beside a road that only others will travel.

But in the real, messy world of creativity, giving away the thing you don't really understand for the thing that you do is an inevitable tradeoff.

I try to remember that except for a very few psychopaths, most people on most days are doing the best they can." I take that for my working motto, though I remain haunted by the thought that if "a kid is just a kid," then a sixteen-year-old kid is a kid just two years away from voting.

Cognitively, grasp of just one concept is the sound of one hand clapping.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.79

So by my lights, the number one rule for salespeople is to show customers that you genuinely like them. There's a wise adage that fits this logic well: people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Las empresas mejoran la probabilidad de que una persona se presente a una reunión o a un acto si, al convocarlo por teléfono, en lugar de decirle al final de la llamada: «Le apuntamos en la lista de asistentes. ¡Gracias!», utilizan la siguiente frase: «Le apuntamos en la lista de asistentes, ¿de acuerdo?

The value of mapping is that it allows us to understand, plan, and communicate about some experience or phenomenon without having to actually "be there.

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

I always loved it when I had a story to tell her, because her attention was complete and felt like sunlight.

Get out of your ideological bubble. If most of the people you talk with agree with you, you're wasting your time. You need to engage with people who may disagree or who haven't thought hard about the issues. Reach across to independents, even to Republicans and self-styled Tea Partiers. Find people who are willing to listen to the facts and are open to arguments and ideas, regardless of the label they apply to themselves. We need them.