#understanding

They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another. ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#chaos #gossip #misunderstanding #gossip

There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly Father in prayer. If we will be obedient and if we are diligent, our prayers will be answered, our problems will diminish, our fears will dissipate, light will come upon us, the darkness of despair will be dispersed, and we will be close to the Lord. ↗

— Robert D. Hales

#jesus-christ #obedience #prayer #understanding #obedience

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#intellectualism #reactions #seeing #understanding #judgment

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#brain #feel #good #joyous #like

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#concert hall #day #every #every day #hall

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. ↗

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

#fatal #human #human affairs #little #misunderstanding

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#common #defined #else #essential #fire

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about. ↗

— Alfred P. Sloan

#agreement #decision #develop #disagreement #discussion

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#become #individual #individual men #industry #men

Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#break up #consequences #couples #families #many