I believe that the best advocates of a certain issue are the ones that fully understand both sides

A person who doesn’t understand both sides of an issue can’t relate to the side he is trying to sway, so his words will bounce off of them without leaving any impression.

No matter how hard we try, we can never understand everything that another person has gone through or why they might believe a certain way. It is possible for something to be right for you and something completely opposite be right for someone else.

One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times they admit that they are wrong is inversely proportional to their
intellectual level.

I write to understand as much as to be understood

Carbon capture and carbon sequestration are two issues we must understand completely before we can expect U.S. industry to put down billions of dollars in investment.