Understanding

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

Ultimately, a man can really understand and appreciate those things only which are of like nature with himself.

Ultimately, a man can really understand and appreciate those things only which are of like nature with himself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

You will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

You will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

Daniel Kahneman

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one'.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one'.

Be kind to unkind people, they need it the most.

Be kind to unkind people, they need it the most.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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

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

Galileo Galilei

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein