Top 100 To Understand Each Other Quotes
#1. When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
Zhang Ziyi
#2. [The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.
Amy Goodman
#3. I would hope with all my heart, that Jay Z not take personally what was said ... I would like to take this opportunity to say to Jay Z and Beyonce: I'm wide open, my heart is filled with nothing but hope and the promise that we can sit and have a one-on-one to understand each other.
Harry Belafonte
#4. Just because you're the same kind doesn't mean you're all one happy family. The important thing is to understand each other. That's love!
Sun-mi Hwang
#5. We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
Alan Lightman
#6. 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
#7. How difficult it is to understand each other, my dear angel, and how much thought is incommunicable, even between people who love each other!
Charles Baudelaire
#8. If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
Havelock Ellis
#9. Editing is a kind of creative activity where, in a perfect world, an author and an editor find that elusive oneness to understand each other intuitively.
Sahara Sanders
#10. If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.
John Mellencamp
#11. If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.
Sarah Gadon
#12. I was just a person, and he was just a person, and together we were scrambling in the dark to try to understand each other.
L. H. Cosway
#13. And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.
Betty Smith
#14. 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
#15. The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.
Fred Rogers
#16. I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.
Joe Wright
#17. Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.
Robert Breault
#18. It is important to the peace of the world to understand each other and have full faith in each other's sincerity. That is all we ask; that is all we want[ ... ]
Harry Truman
#19. Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.
Jane Goodall
#20. Until we learn to love each other, try to understand each other, and be compassionate to each other, peace will be an illusion.
Debasish Mridha
#21. The world is far more interconnected today. Hence the need to understand each other is greater than ever before.
Ronnie Chan
#22. Wolves exhibiting strange behaviour
caught in traps and thrashing about, injured by other creatures or by bullets, pups suffering from epilepsy
are attacked and killed by their pack members. But here everyone is human and must try to understand each other's mystery. Each other's pain.
Nadeem Aslam
#23. Old friends sometimes need no words to understand each other.
William Joyce
#24. I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
Imogen Poots
#25. They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things ... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.
Emile Zola
#26. I think we need to develop a powerful dose of tolerance to understand each other's humanness. None of us is perfect.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#27. Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible.
Kalan Sherrard
#28. By the end of the interview, George and I had clicked....I mean, we weren't BFF's spray-painting hearts and our initials on freeway underpasses or anything. But we seemed to understand each other.
Christopher Paul Meyer
#29. My mother has said that it's often better for a husband and wife not to understand each other too well," he [Rupert] said. "A little mystery keeps a marriage more interesting, she says.
Loretta Chase
#30. We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
Jose Saramago
#31. The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
Hideki Tojo
#32. Neither sex is wrong in their communication; both sexes need to learn how to understand each other.
Pamela Cummins
#34. People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
Martin Scorsese
#35. I'm a mammal at the end. I breathe out and breathe in and eat. At the end, when we go to sleep, nobody lives this political definition. It's something we connect by and we try to understand each other by, but at the end, we know that this is not who we are.
Ashraf Barhom
#36. Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
Yo-Yo Ma
#37. It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#38. Had that to understand each other by, though otherwise they could not have been more alien to each other. In short
Charles Frazier
#39. The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
Gilbert Parker
#40. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand ourselves.
Betty Smith
#41. 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
#42. The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.
Dalai Lama
#43. In this room we understand why this war might be fought ... it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other
no matter what their species.
Deborah Harkness
#44. Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.
Martin Scorsese
#45. One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.
W. Edwards Deming
#46. My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
Woodrow Wilson
#47. 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
#48. No matter in what land we may dwell the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ makes us brothers and sisters, interested in each other, eager to understand and know each other.
Heber J. Grant
#49. She asks him to touch her, to feel her with his hands, because bodies always understand each other, even when souls do not.
Paulo Coelho
#50. Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly mistaken about their fellow and, failing to realize this sad truth throughout a lifetime, weep when they read in the newspapers about his death?
Osamu Dazai
#51. My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.
Jonathan Swift
#52. I have no country...my countrymen are the men and women who work against oppression- it does not matter where they are. With them I feel at home- we understand each other. Others are foreign to me." -Agnes Smedley in Daughter of Earth
Agnes Smedley
#53. I do not understand why you would go out of your way to hurt each other, when life can already hurt so much.
Pleasefindthis
#54. 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
#55. My orphan heart thought love was to complete someone else and to be completed by them. I didn't understand that when two people who aren't whole try to complete each other they both end up with less than when they started. I didn't understand that the only one who can make a person whole is God.
Lacey Sturm
#56. she and Ben chattered away to each other in the language of mothers with their toddlers; the two understood every word exchanged, while the rest of the world just listened, smiled, and didn't understand a single word of the happy gibberish.
William R. Forstchen
#57. There can be no such thing as Superiority when We Are All One. A thing cannot be superior to itself. All things are One Thing, and there is nothing else. When you understand this, you begin experiencing life - and treating each other - in a new way.
Neale Donald Walsch
#58. One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.
Herbie Hancock
#59. We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.
Julian Schnabel
#60. What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?
Storm Jameson
#61. Ethan couldn't possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.
Sara Zarr
#62. Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other .
Nicholas Sparks
#63. There is the mystery of the scattering, the fact that the people who presumably understand each other are geographically scattered. A man who fits in his milieu as Frost does, is to be considered a happy man.
Ezra Pound
#64. I treasure a core value of humanity and that guides people why they act the way they do.
I will use this to show other people how they can understand each other ... as one, we can help society.
Megan Young
#65. Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists ... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#66. This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
Fran Lebowitz
#67. Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
Frank Gehry
#68. When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality.
Sunday Adelaja
#69. A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well.
Poe Ballantine
#70. Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.
Jim Stovall
#71. Or your arms," Trenton added. "Because if you ever talk to her with anything less than a respectful tone again, I will rip those fuckers off and beat you with 'em. Do we understand each other?
Jamie McGuire
#72. We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#73. We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.
Bill Clinton
#74. Don't you want to be anything. An architect or a gardener, or perhaps a painter?'
'No, I don't ... I'd like to do entirely different things. I'd like to understand what robins say to each other. ... I'd like to see how trees manage to drink water with their roots and get to be so big.
Hermann Hesse
#75. There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend.
Gwen Stefani
#76. Andrew put a finger to the underside of Neil's chin and forced Neil's head up until they were looking at each other. "On that day you're not going to run. You're going to think about what I promised you and you're going to make the call. Tell me you understand." Neil's
Nora Sakavic
#77. Things will never go back to the way they were.
My chin tightens. You're right. Because we've both grown and changed. Because we understand each other on every level now. I've seen all your secrets. You've seen mine. We can live for today. Not think about forever.
A.G. Howard
#78. We can help our nation quite a bit if we refrain from getting into our respective corners and throwing hand grenades at each other, and instead try to understand the other's viewpoint, reject the stifling of political correctness, and engage in intelligent civil discussion.
Ben Carson
#79. That's the complication. We are both insanely attracted to each other. We have chemistry that is off the charts. We are best friends, we understand and trust each other, and we are both single.
Genna Rulon
#80. 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
#81. I am too young to understand that a man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, know that they are utterly and hopelessly different
Philippa Gregory
#82. Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
Paulo Coelho
#83. I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.
Audre Lorde
#84. The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.
Alphonse Mucha
#85. As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. But from the moment that you cannot even understand the storytelling or the music of other cultures anymore, then we become strangers to each other and the situation will become very complicated.
Paulo Coelho
#86. What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.
John Keats
#87. One would expect writers and artists to understand one another better than anyone else and to be more appreciative of one another's works. That, sadly, is not always the case. Writers rarely say anything positive about each other.
Elif Shafak
#88. I cannot, will never, understand these couples who hate each other, who conduct open warfare in front of their children - the kind of people who have to drop the kids off at the end of the driveway in case they lay eyes on one another. At the very least, civility must reign.
John Niven
#89. The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.
Geoff Johns
#90. Please don't tell her i told you. I know how much you love her, Hardy, and i know the reason she didn't want you to know is because she loves you, too. I've never seen two people your age feel so deeply about each other. I understand you needing to know, but she would never forgive me.
M. Leighton
#91. Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.
Kevin Spacey
#92. We - as readers or writers, tellers or listeners - understand each other, we share knowledge of the structures of our myths, we comprehend the logic of symbols, largely because we have access to the same swirl of story. We have only to reach out into the air and pluck a piece of it.
Thomas C. Foster
#93. What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value.
Cory Booker
#94. Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond De Goncourt
#95. I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
Karl Kraus
#96. Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.
C.S. Lewis
#97. Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Amy Bloom
#98. It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other - there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great.
May Sarton
#99. For once you rise to a level of God consciousness you will understand that you are not responsible for any other human soul, and that while it is commendable to wish every soul to live in comfort, each soul must choose-is choosing-its own destiny this instant.
Neale Donald Walsch
#100. You and I aren't going to spend our lives together," Jesse says. "But I finally understand that that doesn't take away any of the beauty of the fact that we were right for each other once.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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