Quotes about Understanding

Love fills the gaps. Love reduces the friction created by our limited insight, knowledge, and judgment-inhibiting experiences. There is much I don't know. There are things I'll never understand. But my ignorance does not impede my capacity to put others first.

One of the primary reasons that you have to listen to outsiders: If you don't, you will be driven by the complaints and demands of the insiders.

Political and ideological alignment is not a prerequisite for carrying one another's burdens. I can love you the way Jesus loved me regardless of who you voted for.

Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.

Together is my favorite place to be." "Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is." "You don't need someone to complete you. You only need someone to accept you completely.

It is a beautiful offering to Me when you lay down your judgement and choose compassion. When you love others the way I love you, when you hold back the consequences they could have deserved, and when you treat them the way you'd like to be treated, the you shall receive mercy as well.

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Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context.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