Understanding Quotes
"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open"
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it"
"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace."
"Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment "
"What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the Earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which always tend to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife "
"When you listen to a witness, you become a witness."
"We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph."
"The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard"
"We are what we are because we have been what we have been and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge. "
"People assume that we’re going to have a perfect understanding of things, but things aren’t that simple."
"I often think that the best way to know God is to love many things"
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back"
"In a world in which everything is interconnected, the supreme moral imperative becomes the imperative to know"
"Love is the answer, and you know that for sure."
"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it"
"Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question."
"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."
"Never judge anyone else's choices without knowing all their reasons"