Ray Dalio Quotes

Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it's all about.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

People learn the most about themselves by confronting those with whom they deeply disagree..

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.

When men understand what each other mean, they see for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless.

We have changed because we have learned.

To achieve progress in the face of adversity, we need a genuine commitment to gaining a deeper understanding of humanity. I'd like to see a world with more leaders who are familiar with the depths of the views of those they deeply disagree with, so that they can understand the nuances of everyone they're representing.

If our country is to advance, let it be upon the legs of lessons well-learned.

I don't think that confrontation always leads to a solution.

Every person learns with time and experience.

Me and 50 had a conversation. We good.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do the work of reconciliation. And humans want to take sides. That is why the situation gets worse and worse. Are there people who are still available to both sides? They need not do much. They need do only one thing: Go to one side and tell all about the suffering endured by the other side, and go to the other side and tell all about the suffering endured by this side. This is our chance for peace. But how many of us are able to do that?

I don't have to agree with everything you say, but I should attempt at least to understand it, for the opposite of mutual understanding is, quite simply, war.

I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.

As long as there are two nations, two parties, two sexes or even two people there are going to be divisions. And all the talk in the world isn't going to change that. Thank goodness!

Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.

I just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.