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Understanding Quotes
"Judging others shackles them to the cold iron of our limited notions."
"Many Christians have no understanding of God's fatherhood."
"There's nothing like the gift of understanding."
"Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards."
"We have reduced the understanding of prayers to incantations."
"It is called understanding when one accepts other's talks of wisdom; but, where is the wisdom filled talk in this era?"
"Man is the centrality of God's purpose on earth."
"Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences."
"True understanding lies beyond the desert."
"There nearly always is a method in madness."
"The more a person is united within himself or herself and inwardly simple, the more and higher things he or she understands, because he or she receives the light of understanding from within."
"You need to understand what goal you were created for and you need to understand your destination."
"My concern is not the fact that other people don't understand where I am coming from, even though Christians are supposed to be doing what I am doing."
"It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why."
"The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason. There is no cold shoulder, no saying one thing when you mean something else, no innuendo. Wolves fight for two reasons: family and territory. Humans are driven by ego; wolves have no room for it and will literally nip it out of you. For a wolf, the world is about understanding, knowledge, respect " attributes that many humans have cast off, along with an appreciation of the natural world."
"If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love."
"Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God " a being capable of understanding."
"The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time."
"If you learn from many wise men who disagree one another,you will find that there are many wisdoms came out of truth.In the end, you must find truth and define your own wisdom."
"The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living."
"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
"My dad finished chewing something and then put his fork down and looked at me. 'The longer I do my job,' he said. 'the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.''That is really lovely,' my mom said. I liked that they liked each other. 'But isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.''True. Consciousness makes for poor windows, too. I don't think I'd ever thought about it quite that way."
"Not everyone may not think the way you do."
"Avoid judging others by trying to understand others and their concepts of love and care."
"Deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped."
"I know it's impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them-the bad kids and the good kids and all kids-as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. Varying degrees of sick, varying degrees of neurotic, varying degrees of self- actualized."
"Love is not the primeval surge of libidinal lust that a person receives when meeting a suitable partner for the first time. Love in the truest sense of the term is born much later in a relationship, when both sides get to the know the truest selves of each other."
"We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves."
"The reason for the absence of success is not because of lack of money but because of theabsence of the understanding of the principles of success."
"I wish that I could know you. Not your soul, but you. I've read about you; I've seen into your heart. I've rebuilt your soul, as best I could. But that isn't the same. It isn't knowing someone, is it? That's knowing about someone."
"Misunderstanding of divine truths or lack of understanding are the only things that mayprevent a man from becoming God's representative on earth."
"I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want."
"If you want to understand what is wrong with stupid people you must be one of them."
"The knowledge of course and effect is superior to miracles."
"You recognize God when you begin to recognize people."
"Stop listening to fairy that money grows on the tree."
"Understanding the value of time is understanding the true essence of life."
"The person with an itch can't understand why everyone's not scratching."
"If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it."
"We only perceive God when we receive people."
"Say, you teach a five year old child a few verses from the Bible. And after memorizing them, he will become a part scholar in Christian theology. But that won't make him realize what Jesus actually meant when he said 'love thy neighbor'."
"Passion gives you what you want, lust gives you what you desire, but only love gives you what you need."
"If God spoke from Heaven, people will not understand Him, that is why Jesus came to earth."
"There is always something behind patience and impatience! Be careful enough to understand these two things any time you meet anybody, the patience and impatience of the person!"
"What you cannot understand you don't treasure."
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