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Quotes about Understanding

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
— Thomas Jefferson
Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have the sense that whoever here on earth we couldn't get along with, Jesus will make us roommates in Heaven.
— Bob Goff
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
— Woodrow Wilson
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
— John Henry Newman
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
— George Eliot
Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
— Edith Stein
I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.
— Gordon Hinckley
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
— Jimmy Carter
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.
— Henry B. Eyring
The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus' people.
— Dennis Prager
Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.
— Pope Benedict XVI