Quotes about Understanding
We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies.
— Alain de Botton
The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
— Alain de Botton
There is no better way of coming to be aware of what one feels oneself than by trying to recreate in oneself what a master has felt.
— Alain de Botton
Compatibility is an achievement of love, it shouldn't be the precondition of love.
— Alain de Botton
We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.
— Alain de Botton
Remember, when you're reading your Bible, your Bible is also reading you." It is a two-way transaction.
— Derek Prince
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
— Desmond Tutu
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
— Desmond Tutu
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
— Desmond Tutu
Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
— Desmond Tutu
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.
— Desmond Tutu
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.
— Desmond Tutu