Quotes about Understanding
In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.
— Henri Nouwen
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
... humility + humor = humanity.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
— Will Rogers
Humor is the foundation of reconciliation.
— Francis de Sales
If you want to feel good, be rational.
— Ayn Rand
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.
— Mark Twain
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
— Margaret Atwood
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity.
— Thomas Jefferson
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
— Desmond Tutu
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
— GK Chesterton
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
— Carl Jung