Quotes about Understanding

Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.

The Apostle] Paul's prayer for the Christians at Colosse should always be on our lips: That God fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding (Colossians 1:9).

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.

We can only know and understand ourselves fully through others — through the way we experience others and ourselves in relation to others, and the way others experience us.

The path that leads through Latin and alebra is not the path to material success. But it may suggest much more: that understanding things is a waste of time; that if you want to succeed in the world and have a happy family and a nice home and a BMW you should not try to understand things but just add up the numbers or press the buttons or do whatever else it is that marketers are so richly rewarded for doing.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness...

Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness...