halconero Posted January 22, 2015 Posted January 22, 2015 I'm looking for a quote, and have struggled in vain to find it, wherein Brigham Young once said that we should strive to understand people as they understand themselves. Any help?
Kevin Christensen Posted January 23, 2015 Posted January 23, 2015 I'm looking for a quote, and have struggled in vain to find it, wherein Brigham Young once said that we should strive to understand people as they understand themselves. Any help? "There is one principle I wish to urge upon the Saints in a way that it may remain with them—that is, to understand men and women as they are, and not understand them as you are." J.D. 8:37. I first ran across it in Nibley's essay Brigham Young and the Enemy. http://publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/fullscreen/?pub=1094&index=9 FWIW Kevin Christensen Canonsburg, PA 4
rongo Posted January 23, 2015 Posted January 23, 2015 Here's one from President Young that's related to the thought expressed in the OP: (September 11, 1853. Journal of Discourses 1:74) In reality, the inhabitants of the earth do not vary so much in their sentiments as they do in the explaining of them to each other. This I have good reason to believe; when feelings and ideas are explained, people vary more in language than in sentiment --- yet they differ widely in their sentiments, feelings, customs, habits, and manner of life. 1
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