Quotes about Understanding
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.
- Paulo Coelho
The man who prays ceases to be a fool
- Oswald Chambers
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.
- Henry David Thoreau
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
- Henry Ward Beecher
In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.
- Jacques Maritain
A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Other men's crosses are not my crosses.
- John Donne