Quotes about Understanding

But people seem to have a great love for names; for to know a great many names, seems to look like knowing a good many things; though I should not be surprised, if there were a great many more names than things in the world.

The higher the intelligence, the more faith, and the less credulity; Gabriel rejects more than we, but out-believes us all.

You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

With aging comes physical and emotional challenge. We cannot seem to get as much done in an hour as we did in youth. And it is harder to be patient with others, and they seem more demanding.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.

Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.