If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers

A soul of hospitality and a heart of humanity is a house of love, peace, freedom, liberty and justice.

It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: ‘Who’s the third?

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.

You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its...

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him...

The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.

as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don’t wanna care what they think about my...

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can’t...

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

When I looked at myself through the prism of awareness, great tears came as I connected with how this wounded child felt.

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

As I turned to leave, I looked down. Beside my foot, a sprout of greenery was clawing its way through the pristine nothingness to begin anew. It was later that I realized my haven had...

Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.

Let us think about our attitude of compassion and understanding with which we choose to respond to what is happening around us

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you...

I looked up at him, rain blending into my tears, ”Michael listen! You told me once that when you thought of life, you thought of this big ship in the middle of the sea and...

The true reader must be an extension of the author. He is the higher court that receives the case already prepared by the lower court. The feeling by means of which the author has separated...

When you truly love someone, his/her weaknesses are not meant to be discussed with other people, they are meant to be understood by you.

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines...

Those whom we cannot stand are usually those whom we cannot understand.

You don’t have to have sex to find a feeling of closeness and understanding. Lord knows I feel that way about you. Use that to shackle your hunger. Isn’t that what love is?

Dr. Alt’s discoveries have led to a greater understanding of the ways that cancers of immune cells develop and they hold promise for finding ways to control or perhaps prevent these diseases. Dr. Alt’s studies...

I’m taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people....

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding

Really, it’s not people who don’t understand us who drive us nuts—it’s when those who shouldn’t, do.

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes...

Understanding and love aren’t two separate things, they’re just one.

It’s our understanding that no other products were tampered with, but as a precaution, an employee at the store did remove all similar products from the shelf and replaced them with new products from their...

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,Men were deceivers ever,-One foot in sea and one on shore,To one thing constant never.

Adam is a wonderful athlete and a wonderful human being. He was understanding of the situation and the new landscape of the NHL.

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.

My father nodded. His nod was for me. Different. But not different at all. My father understood. Maybe he had known. Maybe he hadn’t. It didn’t matter anymore. He understood. I knew he understood, just...

Learn to understand your energy and how you create with your energy.

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to...

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice...

It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.

Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time with us, and listens carefully to what we are trying...

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know – for comedians are the caricatures among us.

It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist’s mission is to convert; a theological philosopher’s mission is to build an understanding...

Don’t you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn’t developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that...

When we seek to understand what makes each of us different before we seek to be understood, we learn. Understanding fosters mutual respect for one another.