The understanding of what you actually are is far more important than the pursuit of what you should be. —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: what you are understanding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The mind which is alert, watchful, which is free of fear, is an innocent mind; and it is only the innocent mind that can understand reality, truth or God. —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: truth understanding reality God mindfulness fear innocence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every life, properly understood, is compelling. Anyone aspiring to be an artist knows there’s no such thing as why-bother or nothing-to-see. —David Shields More about this quote Tags: understanding empathy importance life Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. —Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird More about this quote Tags: understanding understand empathy opinion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The situation of the world is still like this. People completely identify with one side, one ideology. ... Reconciliation is to understand both sides, to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then to go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side. Doing only that will be a great help for peace. —Thích Nhất Hạnh More about this quote Tags: understanding empathy peace identity ideology reconciliation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: understanding empathy fear knowledge communication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. —Flannery O'Connor More about this quote Tags: understanding life childhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that. —Joseph Campbell More about this quote Tags: understanding God religion thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. —J. B. S. Haldane More about this quote Tags: understanding knowledge universe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. —Peter Drucker More about this quote Tags: understanding communication listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. —Neil Gaiman More about this quote Tags: understanding power knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: understanding life Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. —Charles Baudelaire More about this quote Tags: understanding agreement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: understanding humor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: understanding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email