One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Understanding Quotes
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
It’s been an interesting year for me because I finally understand why I do what I do now. I’m at a point where I really don’t want anyone else’s advice. I’m 60 in two months – 60 and defiant.
The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some errour in Reasoning, or some sudden force of the Passions. Defect in the Understanding, is Ignorance; in Reasoning, Erroneous Opinion.
Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men’s eyes, because they know—or think they know—some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is […]
God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If He gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.
There is no nation, great or small, with which we would refuse to negotiate, in mutual good faith, with patience and in the determination to secure a better understanding between us.
As an academic, I like dissenting ideas, because out of them comes a deeper understanding of how things are or should be.
If you smile at me you know I will understand, ’cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
