Quotes about Understanding

If you care enough about certain things and work for them, I think you are bound to find them in the people you are with.

In this world, no one is all knowing, and therefore, all of us need both love and charity.

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.

To really find God is to search for him not only in ourselves, not only in our loved ones, not only in our neighbors, not only in the strangers that we encounter, but ultimately in our enemies as well.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Our statements will be adequate if made with as much clearness as the matter allows.

We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing by syllogism: not that we should practice both, for it is not right to persuade to what is bad; but in order that the bearing of the case may not escape us, and that when another makes an unfair use of these reasonings, we may be able to solve them.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.