Quotes about Understanding
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
— Euripides
I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common.
— Barack Obama
It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
— Thomas Merton
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.
— Desmond Tutu
The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.
— Henri Nouwen
Humanity is the equity of the heart.
— Confucius
The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.
— Martin Luther
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
— Mark Twain
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
— Henri Nouwen
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky