If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
actions speak louder than words
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
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.
There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When you are human, you discover that there is great power in hating the earth. And it can almost make you fly. But it never will." I had frowned, not quite understanding him. "So, what's the trick?" "Love the sky.
I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.
For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I had the novel to refer to. It's always really helpful to have all of that information and all of those hundreds more words which give you an idea into the background and your character and all.
The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him.
What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.
If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him.
or simply:
