Quotes about Understanding

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

Science should be the search for truth, not merely the search for materialistic explanations.

As we look at human relationships, what we see is that lovers don't want explanations, but presence. And

Until that moment, I only saw Jesus as the Son of God. I knew he had come down to earth, but that night for the first time it dawned on me: He understands me. He walked in my shoes! As a matter of fact, he was sort of a toogee. You know? His daddy — his earthly father — wasn't his real daddy. He slept in the straw as a child. He was ridiculed and abused. They chased him and tried to kill him.