Quotes about Understanding

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Tact is the ability to deal with people sensitively, to avoid giving offense, to have a "feel" for the proper words or responses to a delicate situation.

Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.