Quotes about Understanding

The number one question customers are asking about a business is, 'Do they care about me?

Any life is laughable if one knows it well enough. It is something serious and terrible if one knows it even better.

She was crude, but loyal. He began to understand her even better than before. A pity she was so old; it was too late to try to make a human being of her.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one.

His breathing was labored. His eyes were closed. But I was convinced that he was seeing everything. That he was seeing the truth in all things.

In an inn somewhere, a wealthy guest mistakes [Rebbe Zusia] for a beggar and treats him accordingly. Later he learns his identity and comes to cry his remorse: Forgive me, Rebbe, you must - for I didn't know! Why do you ask Zusia to forgive you? Rebbe Zusia said, shaking his head and smiling. You haven't done anything bad to him; it is not Zusia you insulted but a poor beggar, so go and ask the beggars, everywhere, to forgive you!

Men are wrong to think that the blind cannot see. The truth is that they see, but differently. I would even say that they see something other.

Could men and women who consider it normal to assist the weak, to heal the sick, to protect small children, and to respect the wisdom of their elders understand what happened there? Would they be able to comprehend how, within that cursed universe, the masters tortured the weak and massacred the children, the sick, and the old?

The lack of hate between executioner and victim, perhaps this is God.