May the sun never set on American baseball.
Harry S. TrumanRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Understanding others leads to peace and resolution of differences.
This quote emphasizes the importance of understanding in fostering peace and resolving conflicts. Harry S. Truman suggests that when individuals are willing to see and acknowledge each other's perspectives, it creates an opportunity for dialogue and collaboration, ultimately allowing for the resolution of differences and promoting harmony among people.
Themes
UnderstandingPeaceCommunicationDifferencesViewpoint
In practice
Example use cases
In a team meeting focused on resolving conflicts, one might say this quote to emphasize the need for mutual understanding.
More from Harry S. Truman
All quotes →Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans.
Harry S. TrumanRead
Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, 'Two cars in every garage'. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan, 'Two families in every garage'.
Harry S. TrumanRead
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
Harry S. TrumanRead
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.
Harry S. TrumanRead
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Harry S. TrumanRead
Similar quotes
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Simone WeilRead
You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER
Jack KerouacRead
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.
Friedrich August Von HayekRead
Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.
Alfred StieglitzRead
The past is always - one moment it's what happened three minutes ago, and one minute it's what happened 30 years ago. And they flow into each other in ways that we can't predict and that we keep discovering in dreams, which keep bringing up feelings and moments, some of which we never actually saw.
W. S. MerwinRead
Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.
Francois HollandeRead