Top 84 Quotes About Understanding Oneself
#1. Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.
Laozi
#2. Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.
Aleister Crowley
#3. Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#4. To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
Adam Mansbach
#5. If you are not actively seeking the truth, you are destined to only know what people tell you, and people will only tell you what they want you to know.
Jack Mierop
#6. Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#7. I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was.
Sade Andria Zabala
#8. But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
Iris Murdoch
#11. To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#13. Parenthood brings profound pleasure and satisfactions
the unparalleled pleasure of caring so intensely for another human being, of watching growth, of reliving childhood, of seeing oneself in a new perspective, and of understanding more about life.
Ellen Galinsky
#14. I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.
Mary McCarthy
#15. One of the fundamentals of understanding love is that love comes from within oneself rather than from someone else.
Gabriel Cousens M.D.
#16. Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination
LDarnell
#17. If the key to life is figuring yourself out; family must be the lock.
LDarnell
#18. A lower power cannot compass the full understanding of a higher. But to limit one's belief to the bounds of one's own small powers, would be to tie oneself down to the foot of a tree, and deny the existence of its upper branches.
Mrs. Alfred Gatty
#19. We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth.
Bryant McGill
#20. Ignorance is an illusion; we seek understanding. Compassion paves the way towards understanding and understanding paves the way towards acceptance.
Alaric Hutchinson
#21. But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary."
"What is that, grandmother?"
"To understand other people.
George MacDonald
#22. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow
you are not understanding yourself.
Bruce Lee
#23. First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#25. There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
Henry James
#26. If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual,
Carl R. Rogers
#27. A change of perspective may be all it takes to transform a painful experience into a powerful growth experience.
Iyanla Vanzant
#28. Literature's view of human nature encouraged understanding, sympathy, and identification with people not like oneself, but the world was pushing everyone in the opposite direction, toward narrowness,
Salman Rushdie
#29. Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.
Leo Tolstoy
#30. If God gives you comfort, extend a comforting hand unto others. If God saves you, extend a saving hand unto others
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#32. As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It is a way of life.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#33. Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.
Dannye Williamsen
#34. We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#35. Art is important for it commemorates the seasons of the soul, or a special or tragic event in the soul's journey. Art is not just for oneself, not just a marker of one's own understanding. It is also a map for those who follow after us. As
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#37. 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
#38. Beauty is seen in repetition; keep repeating your beauty even if your beauty is not all that beautiful, you shall still leave a mark and there shall come a moment when the beauty will be seen
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#39. Life is not about reward and punishment," said Xuen. "It is about understanding, accepting who oneself is right now, in order to know what to change, and how.
Christie Golden
#41. Perfect understanding between beings is no guarantor of happiness. To perfectly understand another's madness, for instance, is to be mad oneself. The veil that separates earthly beings is, at times, a tragic barrier, but it is also, at times, a great kindness.
Andre Alexis
#42. I like stories very much," the priest said. "They help me understand myself better.
Simon Van Booy
#43. When we know what we most fear, we know what we most care about.
Patti Digh
#44. The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.
James Meade
#45. As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you learned mercy from me, and from you I learned resilience. As you came to understand me enough to know the value I placed on selfless love, I understand your nature better.
D. Morgenstern
#46. What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship.
Lorin Morgan-Richards
#47. The moment when you realize no one understands, no one ever did, no one ever will.
You were alone, you always will be.
But may be, just may be, someone will look up to you someday. And when they do, remember to hide those tearful eyes, to smile and to say - look, life's so good.
Sanhita Baruah
#48. Compassion is the capacity to understand the suffering in oneself and in the other person. If you understand your own suffering, you can help him to understand his suffering. Understanding suffering brings compassion and relief.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#49. Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#50. Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.
Richard Eyre
#51. She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after ... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.
Neal Stephenson
#52. Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.
Bruce Lee
#53. Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#55. if people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#56. The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#57. When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.
Bryant McGill
#58. Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and to place oneself.
John Berger
#59. If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
Criss Jami
#60. To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.
Gautama Buddha
#61. The only certain way to forge new understanding it to carry out investigations for oneself.
Jane Borodale
#63. I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
John Green
#64. The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person's argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.
Auliq Ice
#65. 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
#66. True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
Voltaire
#67. A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesses in order to overcome them. It is hard for a person to understand his own weaknesses.
Chaim Potok
#68. When the world kicks your ass, don't step in line.
book: stuff i think about
Sondra Faye
#69. Only learning oneself better, and understanding one's place in the world, made the touch of another mundane.
N.K. Jemisin
#70. There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
#71. A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness.
Vann Chow
#72. All attributes of the relative self (prakrut) in the world have arisen due to lack of understanding. All this has arisen due to not understanding the truth. One has been wandering around for countless lives and still one considers oneself so great!
Dada Bhagwan
#73. Stop wasting so much energy hating your body; it makes you weaker. Everything good in your life begins from the moment you begin accepting, understanding, respecting, and loving your true self.
Harry Papas
#74. So many people have understanding, but in reality, they don't really understand understanding! When you really understand understanding, you get a real understanding!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#76. Cadvan smiled. "We are all many," he said. "But most of us don't have the privilege of understanding that as clearly as you do. It is hard to know oneself, but until we do, we cannot know why we act as we do. It's a lifetime's quest, and it never ends.
Alison Croggon
#77. If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.
Marvin J. Ashton
#78. the greatest clue to changing people is to know and understand what trigger change in people and effectively apply such things in wisdom.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#79. When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.
Stewart Stafford
#80. Thus knowing oneself is no less, and may be more, of a requirement than understanding the enemy.
Martin Van Creveld
#82. Through the mind and judgment,
it is not possible to understand
oneself and others.
True understanding is
a compassionate heart.
Human Angels
#83. Reasons were invented, and stories were reasons that allowed us to connect ourselves to the world, to compose ourselves in ways that others could read. Fragments were true but we needed stories greater than fragments. We needed stories in order to imagine the mad world we lived in.
Bilal Tanweer
#84. You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.
Moffat Machingura
