Quotes about Understanding
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.
- George H. W. Bush
Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
- William Barclay
Light means nothing to a blind man.
- AW Tozer
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
- Ashley Montagu
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
- CS Lewis
We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.
- Mark Twain
Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.
- Hannah More
Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
- Henry David Thoreau
Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
- St. Augustine
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
- Elbert Hubbard
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
- Audre Lorde