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To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Alexander Chase

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Blaise Pascal

I'm just here to say, 'Just be a good person, and really respect others.'

Logic

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Tony Robbins

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Alfred Adler

One thing you get from me is peace, love, and positivity.

Logic

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

John Locke

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Mira Nair

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

J. P. Morgan

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Ambrose Bierce

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

C. S. Lewis

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Rollo May

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Harry S Truman

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

J. Michael Straczynski

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

J. P. Morgan

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

Jonathan Sacks

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Gilbert Parker

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

Michael Ramsey

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Immanuel Kant

Some emotions are essential to law and to public principles of justice: anger at wrongdoing, fear for our safety, compassion for the pain of others, all these are good reasons to make laws that protect people in their rights.

Martha Nussbaum

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Emma Goldman

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

John Donne

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Frances Wright

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Rene Descartes

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

William Hazlitt

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

Edward Albert

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

Corliss Lamont

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

Muhammad Iqbal

Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.

Lobsang Tenzin

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Immanuel Kant

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Lao Tzu

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

John C. Maxwell

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Ralph Ellison

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Martin Luther

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

Dan Pallotta

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

Trai Byers

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Amelia Barr

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus