Quotes about Understanding

He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.

A frigid woman is never jealous, you simply haven't caught up yet on ordinary human emotions.

he forgot for the while what experience had taught him-that no human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

You think you are so bad,' she said, 'but it was only because you couldn't bear the pain. But they can bear pain - other people's pain - endlessly. They are the people who don't care.

The more we know the more we love.

He never listened while his wife talked.

Find me an uncomplicated child, Pyle. When we are young we are a jungle of complications. We simplify as we get older.

Jesus asked, "But what about you? … Who do you say I am?" (Matt. 16:15 NIV).

Far too often, unbelievers know Christians only for what we stand against, not what we stand for.

Teaching is not for a teacher simply to persuade students of his or her own perspective. Rather, the goal is to broaden students' minds by helping them empathetically understand a variety of perspectives while training them to think critically for themselves.

If we only love those who agree with us, we are in fact not loving others at all; we are only loving the (assumed) "rightness" of our own ideas!

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.