Quotes about Understanding
How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never mind how foolish?
— Herman Melville
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
— Herman Melville
Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.
— Herman Melville
No, Stubb; you may pound that knot there as much as you please, but you will never pound into me what you were just now saying.
— Herman Melville
But people seem to have a great love for names; for to know a great many names, seems to look like knowing a good many things; though I should not be surprised, if there were a great many more names than things in the world.
— Herman Melville
The higher the intelligence, the more faith, and the less credulity; Gabriel rejects more than we, but out-believes us all.
— Herman Melville
If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
— Phillips Brooks
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
— Francis de Sales
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
— Margaret Mead
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
— Cicero
When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.
— Zig Ziglar