Top 100 Understand Others Quotes
#1. Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.
Myles Munroe
#2. To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.
Rod McKuen
#3. Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
#4. Many think vulnerability is weakness, but it is not. Those who refuse to be vulnerable lose the ability to understand others who are, and their fear and discomfort quickly turn into judgment and criticism.
Save Time Summaries
#5. Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others.
Confucius
#6. By seeing ourselves honestly, we have the capacity to understand others more deeply.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#8. What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.
Carlos Fuentes
#9. If you want to know yourself,
Just look how others do it;
If you want to understand others,
Look into your own heart.
What is life without the radiance of love?
Friedrich Schiller
#10. The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
John C. Maxwell
#11. What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
Carlos Fuentes
#12. People SHOULD be doubted. Many people misunderstand this concept. Doubting people is just a part of getting to know them. What many people call 'trust' is really just giving up on trying to understand others, and that very act is far worse than doubting. It is actually 'apathy.
Shinobu Kaitani
#13. Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
Laozi
#14. Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
Orhan Pamuk
#15. Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society,
each of us needs to understand himself and understand others,
take care of others and be taken care of himself.
Haniel Long
#16. If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
Martha Beck
#17. Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind and will of Christ.
CARLOS H. AMADO
#18. Knowing yourself lets you understand others.
Jenny Holzer
#19. If you wish to understand others you must intensify your own individualism. Why
Oscar Wilde
#20. Love yourself to love others.
Be yourself to understand others.
Be the light to show the way to others.
Be peaceful to bring peace to the world.
Debasish Mridha
#21. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Katherine Mansfield
#22. Charity," Davidson continues, "is forced on us, whether we like it or not; if we want to understand others, we must count them right in most matters."13
Karen Armstrong
#23. In the process of trying to understand others' difficult behaviour, I've found it is very helpful to realise that no one chooses to be unhappy. If someone is unhappy, they will be so because they genuinely cannot see how to do otherwise.
Torey L. Hayden
#24. I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.
Jerry Brown
#25. Blessed are those with long life who understand others ...
Adil Adam Memon
#26. If you wish to know yourself observe how others act.
If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.
Friedrich Schiller
#27. When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.
Stephen Covey
#28. Hear others, and you will be heard.
Understand others, and you will be understood.
Help others, and you be will be helped.
Love others, and you will be loved.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.
Miyamoto Musashi
#30. Avoid judging others by trying to understand others and their concepts of love and care.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves.
Dhani Jones
#32. The novel is the fruit of a human illusion. The illusion of the power to understand others. But what do we know of one another?
Milan Kundera
#33. The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them - to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.
Vanna Bonta
#34. She would never comprehend the need to hurt those who never hurt her, the need to hate for the sake of hating. She never wanted to rule over others in fear. No, she would never understand the Jabberwocky.
Christina Henry
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. You must understand that it is not in the nature of Man to be grateful. So in whatever you or I do for others we must never expect gratitude. If we do, we will only be disappointed.
S R Nathan
#38. Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the "invisible forces" that shape us
Tony Robbins
#39. I find myself through my readers; I understand what I wrote when I see that others understand it too.
Paulo Coelho
#40. The best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we should do what others expect us to do, but it helps us to understand ourselves better.
Paulo Coelho
#41. Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.
Napoleon Hill
#42. Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent ... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever.
Axl Rose
#43. Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#44. To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject.
Simon Sinek
#45. Are you quick to listen? Listening is an expression of humility and genuine concern for others. ... .If we want to truly know and understand other people, we have to care what they feel and think, not arrogantly assume that we already know.
Joshua Harris
#46. It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
Saint Augustine
#47. I think people tend to be very myopic and they don't understand how their actions impact others.
Jen Lancaster
#48. The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.
Adrienne Von Speyr
#49. We shall understand why a Christian observes laws: For the peace of the world, out of gratitude to God, and for a good example that others may be attracted to the Gospel.
Martin Luther
#50. My entire life, I've never been able to understand the concept of not being happy or excited when others were successful or had something good happen to them. It quite honestly is a concept that I cannot grasp.
Dan Pearce
#51. Sometimes in life only you know what you actually wanted to do ... & you blame others that they dont understand you.
Start expressing ...
Adil Adam Memon
#52. We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!
Auliq Ice
#53. Where Watanabe and I are alike is we don't give a damn if nobody understands us ... That's what makes us different from everybody else. They're all worried about whether the people around them understand them. But not me, and not Watanabe. We just don't give a damn. Self and others are separate.
Haruki Murakami
#55. That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.
Francis Ford Coppola
#56. That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most effective form of communication.
You can use it to lift the human spirit and make them understand that there is more to life than their next drug use.
Jennifer Echols
#57. We should strive to understand the weakness of others.
Ellen G. White
#58. If we cannot express our
assumptions explicitly in ways that
others can understand and build
upon, there can be no larger process
of testing those assumptions and
building public knowledge.
Peter M. Senge
#59. I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
Magic Johnson
#60. I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
Mandy Moore
#61. Learn to see past the flaws and you will understand the perfection of the Universe.
Ka Chinery
#62. True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.
Sheri Dew
#63. Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do not understand a word that we hear ... Others are full of growling, snarling, hissing sounds, as though wild beasts and serpents had first taught the people to speak.
Horace Mann
#64. And she was well-enough acquainted with loneliness to understand that the worst part wasn't having nobody caring for you - it was having nobody to care for.
Tessa Dare
#65. Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A family should be a place where comfort is experienced and understood, so that the people are prepared to give comfort to others.
Edith Schaeffer
#66. The priest's work, the priest's service, was understoon as an act of worship. Theis was Gods desire at Sinai - thst everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving each other.
Rob Bell
#67. The prince is blind to subtlety. He knows his own ignorance and stupidity so is ever suspicious of others, especially when they say things he does not understand. One cannot negotiate when dragged in the wake of emotions.
Steven Erikson
#68. Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.
Susan Sontag
#69. Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.
John Green
#70. Whether people work for themselves or for others, they increasingly want to understand how their actions are contributing to a greater good.They will want to be engaged in work that contributes to society.
Michael Strong
#71. 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
#72. When we understand the needs that motivate our own and others behavior, we have no enemies.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#73. I don't understand why some things are talked about and others are not. I don't know why I think I can make any kind of difference. All I know is that I want to.
Angelina Jolie
#74. The moment you understand the importance of loving yourself, you will stop hurting others.
Nhat Hanh
#75. I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. "Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette," she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#76. Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team's best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.
Tony Dungy
#77. Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.
Umberto Eco
#78. If you understand the economics of emotion and live with others, for others, what you want happens without apparent effort.
Rashmi Bansal
#79. You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me that they're better [than the others] because they only sold [the schemes] to their top-20 clients, so no-one would notice.
Charlie Munger
#80. The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#81. At twenty two, he didn't have the foresight to understand how one decision could affect so many others. Now that he's older and everything has settled into a just-tolerable state of atrophy, the options he once had-options that his young students still have- feel like they've passed him by.
Jung Yun
#82. We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.
T. S. Eliot
#83. THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER MISUSE OF THIS CHANNEL. YOU ARE DISTURBING OTHERS WHO ARE USING IT TO SERIOUS PURPOSE. ACCESS WILL BE RESTORED WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS FOR. GOODBYE
Dan Simmons
#84. Good communicators always articulate messages in a manner they want others to understand and not how they understand it
Moonish Sood
#85. Being a musician makes you very - musicians in general tend to be quite sensitive, I think, to the environment around them, which helps when you are trying to interact with others on screen, to be aware, to be sensitive, and to try to understand what's going on in the scene.
Shirley Manson
#86. Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.
Orson Scott Card
#87. God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
Ava Gardner
#88. 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
#89. The better you understand the beliefs, actions, desires, and wants of others, the more likely you are to make the right response, alter your own thinking where necessary and generally be successful.
Richard Templar
#90. From the moment I could even understand what "respect" was I knew it was not a choice but the ONLY option.
Carlos Wallace
#91. I understand that some people like certain things more than others, but by the time you are an adult, you really should be able to sit down and eat pretty much anything.
John Niven
#92. 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
#93. People who discriminate doesn't understand that they are a stranger to others.
Jestoni Revealed
#94. E made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.
Anais Nin
#95. I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don't know or haven't made the effort to understand.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#96. Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from others, take to worship. They also transcend death by their firm faith to what they have heard.
Anonymous
#97. Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
Lakhdar Brahimi
#98. In life, you either choose to be a powerleess victim or one of the choosen ones, who now has the power to understand the pain of others.
Linda Alfiori
#99. When men and women are loyal to ourselves and others, when we love justice, we understand fully the myriad ways in which lying diminishes and erodes the possibility of meaningful, caring connection, that it stands in the way of love.
Bell Hooks
#100. Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.
Henry Mitchell
