Quotes about Understanding

Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

Come now. let us reason together.

If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.

An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.

Rafe hadn't been around women much, but since he'd gotten married to one of the little critters, he'd noticed they seemed to have to say out loud every thought in their head. Including stuff everybody already knew. It'd snowed. Today it was real nice. It was called weather. What was there to talk about?

I don't think a man can hurt another, not in any important way. Neither hurt him nor help him. I have really nothing to forgive you.

You're the most egotistical and the kindest man I know. And that doesn't make sense." "Maybe the concepts don't make sense. Maybe they don't mean what people have been taught to think they mean.

She sat beside him in the car, feeling no desire to speak, knowing that neither of them could conceal the meaning of their silence.

Reason functions by integrating perceptual data into concepts.

in the wisdom of women the Golden One had understood more than we can understand.

He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood.

Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money' hold the essence of human morality.