Quotes about Understanding
I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.
— Miroslav Volf
By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet him halfway, that is, to open his book and read it.
— Joseph Brodsky
This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.
— Pope Francis
People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.
— Henri Nouwen
True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
— Woodrow Wilson
When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.
— Nelson Mandela
An English man does not travel to see English men.
— Laurence Sterne
In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.
— Rick Warren
Every moment is travel - if understood.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
— Pablo Picasso
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
— Peter Drucker