Quotes about Understanding
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
— Margaret Atwood
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity.
— Thomas Jefferson
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
— Desmond Tutu
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
— GK Chesterton
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
— Carl Jung
People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.
— Marianne Williamson
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
— Philip Yancey
You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
— John Updike
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
— Stephen Covey
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
— Robert Frost
Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
— CS Lewis
Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.
— Wayne Dyer