In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
John C. MaxwellLet us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.
Mother TeresaListen with your eyes for feelings.
Stephen CoveyThe value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Douglas MacArthurThe more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.
Mark TwainMy friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
Steven WrightI am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
Nelson MandelaI think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.
Joel OsteenMediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.
Jeff BezosI am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert FrostWe really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
Thich Nhat HanhI think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinFate pulls you in different directions.
Clint EastwoodAn idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles DickensI don’t think culture is something you can describe.
Bill GatesEven if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.
Stephen HawkingIf you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Albert EinsteinSo when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWhen I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiAll partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Alice WalkerPerhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya AngelouI’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.
Joel OsteenRespect the burden.
Napoleon BonaparteI’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.
Muhammad AliWe need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.
Barack ObamaA first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz KafkaWisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles SpurgeonIn order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Albert CamusFaith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Martin LutherWe have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
Paulo CoelhoYou’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
Paulo CoelhoThe degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand RussellA person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.
Pope FrancisPeople look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.
Paul AusterWhen people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.
Kevin HartAn excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar WildeTeach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
Alexander PopeTo know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOne’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Eleanor RooseveltLove has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise PascalWe’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
Lady GagaMy choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.
Pope FrancisNobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore RooseveltAn enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas JeffersonBack when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.
Richard BransonIf you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson MandelaLook deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert EinsteinSo there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.
David ByrneForgotten is forgiven.
F. Scott FitzgeraldOurs is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.
Barack ObamaForeign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
Joe BidenAll that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.
Russell M. NelsonIf one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Robert FrostThe wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo CoelhoIt is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
EpicurusThe less you know, the more you believe.
BonoHanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
BonoMartyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
Franz KafkaNorth Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
Fidel Castro