Top 100 Quotes About Understanding Others
#1. Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.
Laozi
#2. The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.
Carlos Fuentes
#3. When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.
Lawrence Hill
#4. There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others.
Tian Dayton
#5. More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
Paul D. Boyer
#6. You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#7. This book is a labor of love. It is dedicated to people who have cried themselves to sleep because they were 'different'. It is also a celebration of the 'inner outcast' in all of us, and a humble attempt to inspire tolerance, understanding, and acceptance. the intro from the author
Jodee Blanco
#8. The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.
Steve Goodier
#9. Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able to generate genuine compassion for them. We must work at this continually.
Dalai Lama XIV
#10. We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
Afrika Bambaataa
#11. I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Samuel Johnson
#12. 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
#14. No one understands betrayal like the one who has been betrayed.
Ken Poirot
#15. To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Anthony Robbins
#16. To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.
Rod McKuen
#17. When the same lessons of life that taught them teaches you, you get a good understanding of what made them become who and what they became; you appreciate them better and you uphold the dignity of their integrity in high esteem!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#19. The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Willa Cather
#20. We should strive to understand the weakness of others.
Ellen G. White
#21. So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#22. music has, quite literally, saved my life and, I believe, the lives of countless others. It provides company when there is none, understanding where there is confusion, comfort where there is distress, and sheer, unpolluted energy where there is a hollow shell of brokenness and fatigue. And
James Rhodes
#23. Reading ought to mean understanding; writing ought to mean knowing something; believing ought to mean comprehending; when you desire a thing, you will have to take it; when you demand it, you will not get it; and when you are experienced, you ought to be useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#25. Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.
John C. Maxwell
#26. Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.
Deepak Chopra
#27. Most Pagans are in agreement, treat yourself, others, animals and nature with respect. Just like many other religions the Pagan belief system often incorporates a desire to be a good person, kind, and understanding. There is no spread of hatred or violence.
Ginger Valentine
#28. The ability to connect with others begins with understanding the value of people.
John C. Maxwell
#29. It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#30. Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.
Alexander McCall Smith
#31. Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!
Albert Einstein
#32. The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.
Deborah Tannen
#33. Pause and remember - You alone are responsible for taking an interest in your own growth. Understanding your deepest fears and pain is what will move you forward. If you can do this, you will be rewarded with not only a deeper connection with yourself, but also with others.
Jennifer Young
#34. Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.
Pythagoras
#35. 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
#37. The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#38. So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I justify, in my own particular thoughts, by feeling that I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through; then there is reason for doing it.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#39. It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link ... He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.
Paul Tournier
#40. 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
#42. Things always appear clear and simple from behind glass. It is in the thick of tribulations that blurring details arise, complicating my life. You can't rightly judge me, nor can you assist, from a shielded viewpoint.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#43. To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
Jack Kornfield
#44. 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
#45. Belle saw now that his gruff, sometimes-frightening exterior masked a kind and loyal heart.
Jennifer Donnelly
#46. Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.
Edmar Mednis
#47. To live without love for others is to live in aridity, to be self-serving and fruitless. To live without understanding is to live without sense or purpose. To live without awareness is to live as the deaf, blind and dumb in a world of vibrant light and sound.
Belsebuub
#48. One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
Harry Allen Overstreet
#49. Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others.
Mikhail Lermontov
#50. Whenever you feel like criticizing any one ... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#51. Ava realises she has no idea what a mother might think if you took to her child with a machete, irrespective of the moral righteousness of it. Surely as a writer she should have a greater understanding of what goes on in the minds of others. She must try harder.
Mark O'Flynn
#52. When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them.
Orson Scott Card
#53. It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.
Swami Muktananda
#54. There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what is right when others explain it to them, and finally those that are capable of neither one nor the other.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#55. The stories we share are important. They help to understand ourselves and make sense of the world.
Janet Anderson
#56. 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
#57. Feeling inspired, being challenged. Learning something new, something meaningful. Knowing change is possible and I can make that happen. Understanding and loving others, feeling truly connected and authentic. Good food, great sex, and belly laughs. All the basic foundations of happiness, really!
Jaime Murray
#58. On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.
John Green
#59. Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
Shannon Hale
#60. Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.
Ken Danby
#62. I said there are at least two kinds of satisfaction, however, and the other has nothing to do with skill. It comes from human connection. It comes from making others happy, understanding them, loving them.
Atul Gawande
#63. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway,
#64. The truth, when finally revealed, is sticky like wet dough. The majority of it stays in place as one handles it, but pieces break off and adhere, making certain facts seem larger, more portentous, than others.
Angela Flournoy
#65. It is only through love, tolerance, humility and the understanding of our own fragility that we can begin to find our humanity and, in turn, extend that humanity to others.
Tosha Michelle
#66. Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness and you don't judge yourself, you stop judging others too. And that makes you more human, more compassionate, more understanding.
Osho
#67. The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.
Alain De Botton
#68. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#69. It's when you feel low about yourself, others actions and opinions will affect you. When you look at yourself as a confident person, it's then; you'll find the most peace and understanding, that it's your world you have to live with not theirs.
Ron Baratono
#70. We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.
Thomas Bernhard
#71. ...we are a narrative, storytelling species. Revealing our own histories, and understanding those of others can really help us appreciate the humanity in all of our fellow individuals.
Stephen P. Hinshaw
#72. For as we forgive, we are forgiven; as we condemn others, we are ourselves condemned. Thus in patience condemn not, neither find fault; not condoning, not agreeing, but let thine own life so shine that others, seeing thy patience, knowing thy understanding, comprehending thy peace, may take hope.
Edgar Cayce
#73. 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
#74. I still cannot tap on your walls and discover by the hollow or firm sounds which of your walls are merely decorative, and which ones hold everything up.
Philip J. Hilts
#75. In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#76. Palpatine sought power over others. Yoda sought power from within. Palpatine wanted control of everything, in the hopes of building what he thought would be a perfect universe. Yoda gave up the idea of controlling or perfecting the universe, in the hopes of understanding it.
Michael P. Kube-McDowell
#77. What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship.
Lorin Morgan-Richards
#78. Exalt yourself by devoting yourself to others, enrich yourself by making everyone's destiny your own, by enduring and understanding every facet of human suffering through your pity.
Stefan Zweig
#79. if people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#80. Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.
Sam Harris
#81. You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.
Moffat Machingura
#82. 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
#83. There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.
Rudyard Kipling
#84. All the things that make the character of an individual great, comes from the moral values he or she possesses. Those are the things that give such an individual, strength, vision, integrity, courage and understanding of how to behave toward others.
Ellen J. Barrier
#85. Something tells me you were never a Girl Scout.
Gwenda Bond
#86. [ ... ] art instills the fundamental moral lesson: That you aren't the center of the universe. That others weren't created for your benefit. That they are just as real as you, with equal claimes to dignity and understanding.
William Deresiewicz
#87. Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.
David Jenkins
#88. Through the mind and judgment,
it is not possible to understand
oneself and others.
True understanding is
a compassionate heart.
Human Angels
#89. Continuous understanding goes with love, courage, respect, discovery and acceptance of mistakes.
Auliq Ice
#91. If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#92. It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America - in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#93. The loftiness of understanding embraces all. It requires as much spirit to suffer the failings of others as it does to appreciate their good qualities.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#94. When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.
Stewart Stafford
#95. Making choices for the feelings they bring us & not what others think means we can find fulfilment and achievement from fulfilling our goals.
From the writers of Carolann's Pathway and Carolann's Progression, The Gateway to Understanding your Life's Ultimate Journey
Roland Bush-Cavell And Carolann Frankie
#96. If only we all knew! By understanding the personalities, we are able to give words of encouragement to others that are sincere and authentic. We can get to know others, love them in the way they need to be loved, and help bring out their very best, at home, or at work.
Rose Sweet
#97. 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
#98. Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#99. Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Emma Goldman
#100. The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
