Everything is going to be alright’ doesn’t mean stubbing your toe won’t hurt anymore, but it reinforces that what takes place today, good or bad, is just a small piece of the larger puzzle

When people recover from depression via psychotherapy, their attributions about recovery are likely to be different than those of people who have been treated with medication. Psychotherapy is a learning experience. Improvement is not produced...

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science’s growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

Knowledge is a matter of knowing facts. Wisdom is a matter of understanding and applying principles. A certain amount of knowledge is necessary for wisdom, and without wisdom, knowledge is not only useless, it’s dangerous.

Was it your understanding that by doing what you were doing, Bonny was facing prison?

My brother, he says. My brother is dead.”And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have...

… understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is the one weapon against the world’s bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped or...

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make...

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel… he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men… a good ruler has to learn his world’s language… it’s different for every...

Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our scale were finally the only important ones for us, there was no point...

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

…that breath of relief that there is someone in the world, finally, who understands what hurts you.

Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.

To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a buzz of bioelectricity; the human will as will, and not just...

3. War Peace & Action – 3B.02 LOVE & PEACEHatred goes not by hatred,Violence not by violence,Disappear hatred and violence,By love, understanding, non-violence.[241]- 3B

They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What good does it do a piece of stone to have knowledge?…know it...

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

…treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can’tuntil you do understand.

We always vilify what we don’t understand.

I’m not asking you to walk in my shoes; I’d never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?

All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish…and between those who are truly happy and those who are...

Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror.

Fifteen years ago, a business manager from the United States came to Plum Village to visit me. His conscience was troubled because he was the head of a firm that designed atomic bombs. I listened...

Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.

We all say we hate being misunderstood and how we desperately want to find people who understand us. But it is not lack of compatible people that keeps us lonely. There is no shortage of...

Face it,” Gary told her kindly. “You’ll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn’t what they’re really trying...

Peter was so understanding, just like Adam was. They were very understanding of the situation. They know it’s a new era of the NHL. Other teams are doing different things, but other teams don’t have...

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

I was born subject like others to errors and defects,But never to the error of wanting to understand too much,Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect..Never to the defect of...

Pretjerano čitanje ne čini nas pametnijim. Neki ljudi jednostavno ‘gutaju’ knjige. Oni to čine bez onih neophodnih intervala razmišljanja, koji su potrebni da se pročitano ‘svari’, preradi, usvoji, razumije. Kod čitanja lični doprinos je potreban...

In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path – the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.

To develop understanding and compassion for who we are as introverts, we must be able to explore who we are, what makes us happy, what makes us unhappy, and what oursubsequent needs are.

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the...

It is a joy to share good advice. It takes a grateful ear to listen wisely. It’s always up for us to take the right action and fulfilling path that can truly serve for what...

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up...

You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle – a close societal connection, as such a connection disappears or changes in relevance as...

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Understanding” is a word that I cherish. Understanding is what helps us to love before we judge. Understanding helps us to know more of ourselves and do the same to others.

It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know.

A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation’s goal should be to understand the other...

I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn’t find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I...

Being tough isn’t in and of itself a bad thing. Looking back on it, though, I can see I was too used to being strong, and never tried to understand those who were weak. I...

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Whatever you is, Onion,” he said, “be it full.

Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that’s when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.

I consoled myself with Granddaddy’s words on the fossil record and the Book of Genesis: It was more important to understand something than to like it. Liking wasn’t necessary for understanding. Liking didn’t enter into...