Understanding Quotes

"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots" "True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth." "Mistakes are after all the foundations of truth and if a man does not know what a thing is it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not" "I always feel like there are things about me that people can relate to." "The really great films challenge the way you see the world, they revisit and reframe understanding of who we are." "We have a choice between conversation and war. That is all. " "Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood" "There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart " "The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it " "The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God" "When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different" "It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour" "Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment" "Experience seems to most of us, for instance, to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them." "Find the best in everybody. No one is all evil or all bad" "Knowledge is true opinion" "Those who are able to see beyond the shadows" "I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person." "If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool" "The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories"