Quotes on Understanding

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the barren canyon walls. And the mute desert seemed to carry on our conversation for us.

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

The important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they've beginning to have with autism.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.