Quotes About Understanding

Kdyby rybá? napichoval na há?ek jako návnadu n?co, co chutná jemu, asi by na to moc ryb nechytil. Proto užívá jako návnadu to, co chutná rybám. S chlapci je to stejné. Kdybyste jim kázali o tom, co sami považujete za po- vznášející, nechytili byste je.

Only when you've had that experience of falling in love with something, Barron believes, will learning the rules that support it make sense. Otherwise, "rule-talk" is always going to seem like someone trying to control another, like an exercise in power rather than liberation to play the game well.

scapegoaters, but rather on the side of the scapegoated victim.

An aggressive reason that seeks always to grasp on its own terms will never come to know deeper dimensions of reality, including and especially the personal. Such depths can be plumbed only through something like a faith that accepts and receives.

The successful evangelist does not stand aloof from the experience of sinners, passing easy judgment on them, praying for them from a distance; on the contrary, she loves them so much that she joins them and deigns to walk in their shoes and feel the texture of their experience.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Victor Hugo said it well. 'To understand all is to forgive all.

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

Alice More: As for understanding, I understand that you are the best man that I ever met, or am likely to; And, if you go...Well, God knows why I suppose. Though as God's my witness God's kept deadly quiet about it!

Sometimes, when I am reading, the way a person has phrased his truth is as important to me as the truth itself.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

Overheard at a gravesite: "And they all said 'I'm sorry for your loss,' as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me."

A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far."

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, they turn 15.

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.