Understanding Quotes

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing-- that's what counts" "A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain." "Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That’s why they look alike. " "An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out." "Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them" "What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility" "Wisdom is only found in truth" "Go beyond tolerance to acceptance" "When people talk listen completely. Most people never listen" "I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all" "One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake." "It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view" "It is better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion however satisfying and reassuring" "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood" "Two people who see things differently can learn a lot from each other" "You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them" "What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears" "The victory of wit over philosophy always comes down to the victory of meaning over fact. " "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" "Who am I to judge"