Top 100 Quotes About Understanding Each Other
#1. I just want to open up the avenues for people to express themselves. That's what the media ought to be. It shouldn't just be a conveyer belt of shiny products to buy. It should be a way that we're all communicating and understanding each other.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#2. She knew his secrets, knew him inside out.
Humans could never know each other that way.
They could never really get into another person's head.
All the talking in the world couldn't even prove that you and the other person saw the same colour red.
L.J.Smith
#3. We don't necessarily need to know each other's name, age, profession, drug of choice, childhood trauma or recent tragedy to understand what pain feels like and offer comfort. We are strangers drawn together by a shared desire for lasting peace.
Marta Mrotek
#4. Little by little, Leo [Messi] and I are understanding each other better.
Neymar
#5. As humans, no matter our level of understanding, we are very complex beings with very complex thoughts. There are ideas that each of us have within our heads that are so different from each other it is mind boggling.
Matthew Carter
#6. I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best ...
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
#7. What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?
Raymond Chandler
#8. The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.
Kevin Kelly
#9. If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#10. Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.
Sidney Hook
#11. He stood looking straight at her. Their understanding was too offensively intimate, because they had never said a word to each other.
Ayn Rand
#12. Can we be clear about who we are, what we want? Can we be fully present in our truth, and communicate that? Can we understand each other?
Jay Woodman
#13. Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.
John Steinbeck
#14. INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
Ambrose Bierce
#15. Peace is possible with understanding of each other.Understanding is love for one another.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#16. The world could be a little less cruel, if we nurture each other while we grow; learn understanding while we transform and maintain a humble attitude whilst we succeed.
Nikki Rowe
#17. And without understanding, could each properly love the other?
Anita Brookner
#18. Two human beings have such difficulty in understanding each other - there is nothing so sad as two human beings.
Halldor Laxness
#19. There was always a sort of tacit understanding among women, born of the solidarity of the sex, that they should discover or invent lovers for each other ...
Henry James
#20. If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.
Richard Flanagan
#21. After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn't understand each other and were suspicious of each other.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#22. We speak about understanding each other, having those conversations nationwide - culturally, historically - and yet there's a lot of gaps. So I want to assist with closing the gap of knowing about and hearing about our Latino communities in terms of literature, in terms of writing.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#23. Understanding the diversity of our gifts enables us to begin taking the crucial step of trusting each other.
Max De Pree
#24. I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.
Phylicia Rashad
#25. If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.
Ted Koppel
#26. If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.
Sarah Gadon
#27. Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go. They remind us of how to be human, how to live alongside the other lives that animate this planet ... When we lose stories, our understanding of the world is less rich, less true.
Susan J. Tweit
#28. Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.
Edmund White
#29. Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.
Hermann Hesse
#30. Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.
Louis J. Camuti
#31. Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.
Bilal Tanweer
#32. We fell in love instantly, sparks flew. It was like we had met before.
We had trouble understanding each other over the years. But our love has grown stronger through accepting ourselves and each other.
Tina J. Richardson
#33. Carlos, are we in complete understanding with each other?"
"Yeah," I say. "As long as it's not in your house and you don't know about it, you're okay with us messin' around."
"I know you're joking with me. You are joking with me, aren't you?"
"Maybe.
Simone Elkeles
#34. The majority of people in modern society feel separated - from the world, each other, and themselves. This feeling of separation is a resultfrom we humans attempting to separate ourselves from nature, and consequently forgetting who we really are.
Joseph P. Kauffman
#35. In truth, people know very little about each other. I only know as much about you as I know about myself.
Vironika Tugaleva
#36. We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.
Audre Lorde
#37. I think we understand each other a little better, and that's never a bad thing.
Abigail Hilton
#38. The brother and sister talked till midnight without understanding each other.
Anton Chekhov
#39. The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.
Fredrik Backman
#40. Words have divided man from woman,
one from another, this from that,
until only sages know how to put things together.
Without words, without even understanding,
lovers find each other.
The moment of finding is always a surprise,
like meeting an old friend never before known.
Laozi
#41. There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.
Richard Benjamin
#42. The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.
Edith Wharton
#43. I think he [Vaclav Havel] is one of the great figures of the 20th century. He is one of the people that was able to be a part of overthrowing a dictatorial system by talking to people and understanding what the elements of democracy really are and respect for each other and elevating.
Judy Woodruff
#44. The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
Franz Kafka
#45. It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
Bede Griffiths
#46. Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.
Simone De Beauvoir
#47. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.
Dalai Lama
#48. Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other.
Stephanie S. Covington
#49. I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.
Benjamin Carson
#50. understanding can only come from a recognition of each other's history.
Sandy Tolan
#51. Marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll always figure out a way to get through it
Nicholas Sparks
#52. I hear hate. I hear people who clearly don't have a great understanding of the American dream. That the American dream is based on hard work and dedication, determination, resilience, excitement, mentorship, help and love for each other.
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
#54. In the closet, in my nest of human cloth, I dreamt of skinless people, a world of living meat, clinched in a wounded hug and finally understanding. We would truly feel the cold, we would truly know each other.
Colin McAdam
#55. If we are open and we prepare for promoting dialogue and love, and a better understanding of each other, and tolerance and so forth, that's what the world will become, a more tolerant, loving place.
Russell Simmons
#56. Some people have sex by putting fishhooks in each other. Couple this act with a simple understanding of the basic function of all living creatures to expand and contract. Now, try that with fishhooks.
Sarah Schulman
#58. If everybody went around understanding each other without asking questions or speaking their mind, they'd never get anywhere.
Haruki Murakami
#59. How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?
Lester B. Pearson
#60. We should all focus on trying to be compassionate to others at all times, and be as understanding as possible towards people we know are hurting. We should try to be there to lift each other up.
Avril Lavigne
#61. We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#62. In truly understanding the Goddess and God, one comes to understand life, for the two are inextricably entwined. Live your earthly life fully, but try to see the spiritual aspects of your activities as well. Remember - the physical and spiritual are but reflections of each other.
Scott Cunningham
#63. And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the balance with each other.
Richard Mitchell
#64. We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the world as a unified whole, where digital and analog experiences affect each other rather than transporting analog experiences into the digital realm.
Evan Spiegel
#65. ? Life is all about relationships and what actually happens when people relate, when people understand each other. To see each other for who they are, not what we want or expect of them. Margaret Bouchard
Ted Magnuson
#66. Don't even try understanding the dumber sex. Just be happy they're getting along now and not punching each other's lights out.
Tonya Burrows
#67. Neither sex is wrong in their communication; both sexes need to learn how to understand each other.
Pamela Cummins
#68. Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
#69. And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#70. There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Eric Hoffer
#71. We just sat there on the sofa and looked at each other, a kind of unspoken mutual understanding filling the silence.
Cally Taylor
#72. Friends
or lovers
are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.
Madeleine L'Engle
#73. George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness to remain at cross-purposes, is in itself a kind of intimacy.
Christopher Isherwood
#74. If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Elbert Hubbard
#75. They were two wandering souls drawn to each other by a shared understanding of the world.
Hend Al Qassemi
#76. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.
John Steinbeck
#77. Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre.
Sara Sheridan
#78. Which makes you wonder, are they really speaking real words or do little kids just start out naturally understanding each other before the prime of life sets in?
Barbara Kingsolver
#79. Like life, racial understanding is not something that we find but something that we must create. And so the ability of Negroes and whites to work together, to understand each other, will not be found readymade; it must be created by the fact of contact.
Coretta Scott King
#80. If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#81. The communication has evolved to such a degree that kids under 25 can connect to each other so quickly and so immediately that they really don't have the patience or understanding for inherited rhetoric.
Seth Green
#82. Renew each other with love, understanding, and sustenance
Mark Hathaway
#83. B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding - when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me. Good night Gideon.
Sylvia Day
#84. After all, everyone may not start with the same financial opportunities; however everyone does start with the choice to live their life with integrity, trust, love, respect,understanding for each other and oneself.
Tasha Hoggatt
#85. When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.
Damon Lindelof
#86. We can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons. we can support one another ... we can be understanding of each other and easier on ourselves.
Katrina Kenison
#87. I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.
Joshua Homme
#88. Communication. It's important to be completely open and fearless when it comes to communication. Good, bad, happy, sad. Talk it out, hug, see a shrink, text each other, hurl marshmallows. Whatever it takes to ensure a deep understanding of each other's feelings. Cancer is not a solo mission.
Ethan Zohn
#89. Collage is more than just an art style. Collage is all about bringing different elements together. Once you form a sensibility about connection, how different elements relate to each other, you deepen your understanding of yourself and others.
Bryan Collier
#90. Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
Deepak Chopra
#91. As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good - I use it because I have to, but I don't put any trust in it. We never understand each other.
Marcel Duchamp
#92. For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
Carson McCullers
#93. At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.
James Tobin
#94. In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.
Mick Dodson
#95. With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.
William Golding
#96. One of the things that I miss about Canada is that even the strangers, you have an immediate rapport, there's just an understanding that we're all good people, let's be nice to each other. And Kiwis have that. I find the Kiwis have that.
Evangeline Lilly
#97. Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
Helen Hollick
#98. Sometimes
and I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second
sometimes there can be perfect understanding between two people who can't stand each other. He smiled, and I smiled, and we put the Timex watches on, and we watched the seconds flit by.
Gary D. Schmidt
#99. The photograph, now they are detached from their original surroundings, they are involved in a close world in which they only relate to each other: all the rest of 'reality' has vanished. This allows us to see those elements from a new point of view and perhaps to reach a better understanding ...
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
#100. Here I'd been thinking that just because someone spoke English we'd understand each other. But I guess there are languages within languages, and those can be foreign, too, even when you think you're understanding each other.
Christopher Barzak
