Quotes about Understanding
It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There's people I love. But there's so many other kinds of love, too. And people act so hateful to every kind but their own.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Oh, and the camel. Was it a camel that could pass through the eye of a needle more easily than a rich man? Or a coarse piece of yarn? The Hebrew words are the same, but which one did they mean? If it's a camel, the rich man might as well not even try. But if it's the yarn, he might well succeed with a lot of effort, you see?
— Barbara Kingsolver
No matter what happens on God's green earth, Father acts like it's a movie he's already seen and we're just dumb for not knowing how it comes out.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative truth but not its twin.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.
— Barbara Kingsolver
That is so. Science directs us to study our maker's creation, but his thoughts on its purpose are only his to reveal.
— Barbara Kingsolver
As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
— Stephen Covey
How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
— Stephen Covey
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.
— Stephen Covey
people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.
— Stephen Covey