From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

To be social is to be forgiving.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

If you would judge, understand.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

If 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.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

A 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.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

I 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.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

A person hears only what they understand.

Science is nothing but perception.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.