Understanding Oneself And Others Quotes

#1. But to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

Iris Murdoch

#2. First one must understand conditioning - only then can we speak of choice

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#3. 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

#4. Ignorance is an illusion; we seek understanding. Compassion paves the way towards understanding and understanding paves the way towards acceptance.

Alaric Hutchinson

#5. 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

#6. If the key to life is figuring yourself out; family must be the lock.

LDarnell

#7. Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination

LDarnell

#8. 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

#9. Just because I understand does not mean I agree.

Carlos Wallace

#10. Understanding breeds empathy.

Christopher Paolini

#11. In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Theodore Roethke

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. When we know what we most fear, we know what we most care about.

Patti Digh

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#18. 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

#19. Offenses offend, beware!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. If God gives you comfort, extend a comforting hand unto others. If God saves you, extend a saving hand unto others

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#21. though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#22. 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

#23. Your own guilt is your own fault.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#24. 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

#25. The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#26. 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

#27. You were...are...what I heard. Every note.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. if people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#32. You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.

Moffat Machingura

#33. 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

#34. Through the mind and judgment,
it is not possible to understand
oneself and others.
True understanding is
a compassionate heart.

Human Angels

#35. A common understanding is the pivot and a common way to bond the disintegrated

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#36. When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Stewart Stafford

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. When the world kicks your ass, don't step in line.
book: stuff i think about

Sondra Faye

#41. True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Voltaire

#42. Our pasts often set our circumstances.

Katherine Russell