Quotes About Understanding

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

"It's uh known fact, Pheoby, you got tuh go there tuh know there."

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes women love with their ears.

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

Ich habe mich oft gefragt, ob wir die anderen sehen können, wie sie wirklich sind, ob wir sie je erkennen oder nur das in ihnen sehen dürfen, was sie selbst auch zulassen.

aber was weiß man schon, solange man keine Kinder hat? Nichts weiß man, man wandert mit anderen Ahnungslosen durch ein Tal der Ahnungslosigkeit, ich wusste früher auch nicht, wie das sein könnte, ich habe nicht gefragt, was tun diese Mütter den ganzen Tag?

El mundo sería infinitamente mejor si los líderes pudieran entender y aplicar las dinámicas que se esconden tras las apariencias que mueven y moldean el mundo.

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal.

For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.