Quotes About Understanding

Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.

Peace comes with trust, which will grow from continuing efforts toward mutual understanding and trade, Romeo-and-Juliet-style marriages, conversations,negotiations, and individual commitments.

If Hegel could not be taught to ordinary intelligent people, then I for one would not find reason to read him at all.

To say that Hegel is an idealist is to say that, at every turn, he argues that the world is thoroughly knowable, and it is nothing "beyond" the realm of conscious experience.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.

Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice.

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

You don't understand a lie, Molly said as we paralleled an ancient boardwalk gone white with salt, until you understand the motivation behind it.

And don't you dare say you love me, because I know that's not true. You don't know the difference between being in love and conducting yourself like you're in love. It's nice you picked me, but it could have been anybody, and believe me, Tyler, it would have been just as disappointing, one way or another.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living. I had read that somewhere in my postgraduate days and remembered it as I sat at his side. Jason died as he had lived, in the heroic pursuit of understanding. His gift to the world would be the fruits of that understanding, not hoarded but freely distributed.

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

a state of balance—a clear understanding of why we feel the way we do, conscious of our impulses so that we can think without being secretly compelled by our emotions.

It is estimated that over 65 percent of all human communication is nonverbal but that people pick up and internalize only about 5 percent of this information.

The Laws of Human Nature, 1: Master Your Emotional Self—The Law of Irrationality

The problem in trying to prove a point or gain a victory through argument is that in the end you can never be certain how it affects the people you're arguing with: They may appear to agree with you politely, but inside they may resent you.

We force ourselves to step outside our inner chamber of habitual thoughts and connect to the world, to other people, to reality.

The first step toward becoming rational is to understand our fundamental irrationality. There are two factors that should render this more palatable to our egos: nobody is exempt from the irresistible effect of emotions on the mind, not even the wisest among us; and to some extent irrationality is a function of the structure of our brains and is wired into our very nature by the way we process emotions. Being irrational is almost beyond our control.

You must be particularly careful to never make people feel stupid in your presence.

Never try to seduce someone who is of your own type. You will be like two puzzles missing the same parts.