Understand Others Quotes

If you wish to understand others you must intensify your own individualism. Why ~ Oscar Wilde

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate. ~ Oscar Wilde

To love others, that is, understand others, is, in reality, an affluent mental activity. We must, in order to reach it, add to the synthesis of our own psychological phenomena those of others and construct in our thought a larger synthesis than that of our own personality. These poor creatures cannot understand themselves. They have not strength enough completely to build up their own personality; therefore it is quite natural that they cannot assimilate that of others. Selfishness, in hystericals, is a result of mental weakness, of the diminution of all sympathetic emotions. ~ Anonymous

Spirituality, for someone like me who doesn't believe in God, in the existence of soul, in something after-death, is the capacity to love and to understand others – humans, and animals – is the capacity to not do to others what you don't want other people to do to you. ~ Margherita Hack

This is why those with greater social sensitivity have stronger friendships, better marriages, and are happier with their lives in general. At work, leaders do better when they have some sense of whether or not their instructions are being understood. Managers motivate their employees when they have some sense of what their employees want and need. Salesmen close more deals when they have some ability to know what their customers want and can modify their pitch accordingly. Most of us avoid getting into fistfights or looking like complete idiots because we have a reasonable sense of what others think and feel, and thus can manage our relationships reasonably well. Being able to understand others ~ Nicholas Epley

Knowing yourself lets you understand others. ~ Jenny Holzer

Learn to understand others. Most people do not want to understand others, instead wanting others to understand them. This is egotism. We should try to think less of ourselves and more of others. Try to understand others better. ~ Master Jun Hong Lu

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

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love. ~ Bryant McGill

Blessed are those with long life who understand others ... ~ Adil Adam Memon

The highest task of education is - to take command of one's transcendental self - to be at once the I of its I. It is all the less to be wondered at that we lack complete insight and understanding for others. Without perfect self-understanding one will never learn to truly understand others. ~ Novalis

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. ~ Katherine Mansfield

Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to get without giving, to take without risking, to profit without sacrifice, to be exalted without humbling themselves to understand others and meet their needs. ~ George Gilder

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

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

If you wish to know yourself observe how others act.
If you wish to understand others look into your own heart. ~ Friedrich Schiller

Avoid judging others by trying to understand others and their concepts of love and care. ~ Debasish Mridha

By seeing ourselves honestly, we have the capacity to understand others more deeply. ~ Helen LaKelly Hunt

I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better. ~ Jerry Brown

If you understand others you are smart.
If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
If you overcome others you are powerful.
If you overcome yourself you have strength.
If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.
If you can act with vigor, you have a will.
If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.
If you die without loss, you are eternal. ~ Lao-Tzu

But see, the incredible thing about people is that we forget," Ray continued. "Time passes and somehow the hope creeps back and sooner or later someone else comes along all over again. We go through our lives like that, and either we just accept the lesser relationship
it may not be total understanding, but it's pretty good
or we keep trying for the perfect union, trying and failing, leaving behind us a trail of broken hearts, our own included. In the end, we die as alone as we were born, having struggled to understand others, to make ourselves understood, but having failed in what we once imagined was possible. ~ Nicole Krauss

Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others. ~ Confucius

Forgiveness brings about miracles. Forgiveness helps us understand others like a lamp that illuminates our hearts, enabling us to let go of resentment, vengeance and jealousy. ~ Master Jun Hong Lu

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. ~ Martha Beck

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

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

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

Sometimes I imagine that writing is a survey I carry out, asking everyone I encounter, in reality or in fiction: How much of your life is lived to be known by others? To be understood? How much of your life is lived to know and understand others? But like all surveys the questions are simplifications. How much does one trust others to be known, to be understood; how much does one believe in the possibilities of one person's knowing and understanding another. ~ Yiyun Li

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

What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others. ~ Carlos Fuentes

have learned that the process of teaching and learning, of communication, involves movement, back and forth: the one who is healed and the one who is healing constantly change places. As we begin to understand ourselves, we begin to understand others. It is part of the process of moving from idealism to reality, from the sky to the earth. We do not have to be perfect or to deny our emotions. ~ Jean Vanier

What insanity causes a king abandon the comforts of his kingdom and willfully discard the privileges of royalty in order to save an ornery and rebellious people who have spent a lifetime rejecting him? We have yet to understand that such an action is nothing of insanity. Rather, it is everything of love. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane. ~ Ray Nagin

Harry - I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!"
And she sprinted away, up the stairs.
"What does she understand?" said Harry distractedly, still looking around, trying to tell where the voice had come from.
"Loads more than I do," said Ron, shaking his head.
"But why's she got to go to the library?"
"Because that's what Hermione does," said Ron, shrugging. "When in doubt, go to the library. ~ J.K. Rowling

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. ~ Abraham Lincoln

I used to shake my head when I heard about mothers who were shocked - shocked! - when their kids came out. I didn't understand how they had missed seeing something so essential when looking at their children. But too many parents see only what they want to see, and that's true whether our kids are gay or straight. ~ Suzanne Brockmann

Over the last year, Simon had come to understand that the Shadowhunters preferred to believe their choices were perfect, their laws infallible. ~ Cassandra Clare

Faith in Jesus Christ is more than just believing in Him; it is trusting in Him that He loves us, that He knows what's best for us, and that His commandments are for our benefit. Sometimes even the no answers to our prayers can help us strengthen our trust in Him, and we can better understand that His will is better than our own desires. ~ Larry L. Howell

Easier to understand the wind . . . Easier to walk on the surface of the frothing sea, than to remember the hunger to do it. Easier to remember knowledge than ignorance, experience than innocence. Easier to know what you are than remember what you were. ~ Patricia A. McKillip

I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is a person who talks about the creative process, but often doesn't understand it. ~ Mary Pratt

One of the misconceptions about atheism is that it somehow means someone denies the possibility of a deity. In all actuality, it simply means you don't believe it to be the case - a point that should not be hard to understand with the complete lack of physical evidence that points to the existence of such a being or beings. Even if you're 51 percent sure that there is no magical man in the sky, you are an atheist; and admitting that is the first half of the battle. ~ David G. McAfee

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it. ~ Fred Tomaselli

Operna did not understand this habit of Indian men. If they could letch at her so overtly, they might as well ask her directly who she was. Why did they always turn to someone else and say, 'Wont you introduce us?' It was so pathetic. ~ Manu Joseph

War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel. ~ Meera

I understand it's difficult but you've got to think about yourself, you know, and not just follow the crowd. ~ Jermain Defoe

We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is why our stories are often wiser than we are. ~ Marion Dane Bauer

I understand friendship and I can understand why Barak Obama did it, but I think Brexit is something that he shouldn't have done. ~ Donald Trump

And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I'm not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who invented the tree in my front yard, the beauty of my sweetheart, the taste of a blueberry, the violence of a river at flood. There are a lot of religious trends that would have us controlling God, telling us that if we do this that and the other, God will jump through our hoops like a monkey. But this other God, this real God, is awesome and strong, all-encompassing and passionate, and for reasons I will never understand, he wants to father us. ~ Donald Miller

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood. ~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They understand nothing else. We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit. They are nothing but vicious animals. They are greedy, self-indulgent, predatory dollar-chasers ~ Ayn Rand

I love to watch my daughter. At twenty-two months, that little soul is developing at a rate I will never understand. She's kind of taught me that growth and expansion are a person's natural state and inclination. ~ Daniel Gillies

We energetically attract what we haven't worked out in ourselves. When vampires evoke intensely judgmental reactions from us, it could be they are mirroring aspects of our personalities we don't like or completely understand. ~ Judith Orloff

The greatest gift of life is love, but not many people seem to feel it or even understand the meaning of it. ~ Mouloud Benzadi

At the very core of conservatism lies comfort with contradiction, acceptance of the fact that life is not fair; that ideals must forever be goals, not destinations; that the perfect is not the enemy of the good but one standard by which we understand what is good in the first place - though not the only standard. ~ Jonah Goldberg

Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender? ~ Francis Chan

This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole. ~ F. Sionil Jose

Love saves, that's what I wanted him to understand. Even if I didn't completely believe it myself. ~ Elise Turcotte

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization. ~ Howard Gardner

Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth ... but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy of it. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

If you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. ~ Martin Lindstrom

A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn't understand what these instruments were meant to be doing ~ Suzanne Ciani