Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can ‚solve the climate crisis.‘ But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals‘ imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

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

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.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

Ours 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.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

If you would judge, understand.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.