Eyes wide open Quote by Ross Ashcroft

“You will never truly understand other people until you learn to see through their eyes, listen through their ears and feel with their hearts.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“Understanding is like water flowing in a stream. Wisdom and knowledge are solid and can block our understanding”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“It will all be in vain, to try and look at the world through a small window and hope to comprehend it's complexities. Only…

— Wayne Chirisa

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“If I've learned anything at all from my years, it's the simple lesson that human beings are always more complicated, brave, long-suffering, and, ultimately,…

— James Lee Burke

“Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred…

— James Rozoff

“To be pushed and move beyond our own understanding provides a wonderful learning opportunity.”

— Terran D. Jackson

“We begin to learn wisely when we're willing to see world from other people's perspective.”

— Toba Beta

“Before any change for the better can take place, a level of understanding is always needed; because without understanding we tend to fall back…

— Gyalwa Dokhampa

“It can be so empowering for us to understand, even on a conceptual level, that we are enlightened in our true nature.”

— Tulku Thondup

“We can say that wisdom causes us to know, while understanding enables us to act.”

— Shane Wall

“Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth…

— Philip Pullman