Quotes about Understanding

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Dad had a way of disarming people because he never really directly attacked them. He might attack a principle, but he never attacked the individual.

Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.