#understand

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields. The peril of a clash is aggravated by a more or less predominant sense of combativeness, posed by every human being. To resist this inherent fighting tendency the best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#understanding #resistance

We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you. ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#kindness #misunderstanding #desire

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. ↗

— Plato

#poets #themselves #things #understand #utter

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#tolerance #understanding-others #aspiration

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#contents #deep #least #lived #man

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#blinded #compassion #facts #false-interruptations #guessing

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.  ↗

— Elise Valmorbida

#language-understanding #love

Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is, from the words by which we clumsily name them, but everything seems to indicate that it uses these laws for aims and objectives that transcend and always will transcend our understanding. ↗

— José Saramago

#life #nature #understanding #dreams

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#best #bring #characters #film #i

I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me. ↗

— Bobby Farrelly

#call #done #extremely #gross-out #i