Understanding Others Quotes

Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength. ~ Laozi

Shyness makes strangers of people who could have been more than friends. ~ Amit Kalantri

If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus' secret was His ability to see into people's hearts. Seeing their anguish and pain helped Him to understand their nastiness. So He could pity them rather than become angry with them. That is what we have to do: try to understand the pain in people's lives ... and not take personally what they do to us. ~ Joseph F. Girzone

Just because I understand does not mean I agree. ~ Carlos Wallace

It is logical to say that ignorance seems to be the root cause of all human suffering. ~ Kat Lahr

To recognise ourselves in each other
Is to build the bridge towards compassion and love ~ Mimi Novic

I knew there was no point in debating a man such as this. The world bent and contorted itself to fit his understanding, not the other way around. I could not make him see reason, could not make him regret his actions. It would be a mistake to try. ~ David Liss

If life were perfect, we would never learn anything.
Thus, never appreciate life. ~ Zarina Bibi

We do well to be our paramount 'significant one'. Being our best friend entails respecting ourselves, recognizing our way of living and accepting what we are and how we are. It can give us the power to understand and appreciate the others. ("Being my best friend"). ~ Erik Pevernagie

Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues. ~ Jay Woodman

The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

The stories we share are important. They help to understand ourselves and make sense of the world. ~ Janet Anderson

When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don't just shun them; don't kill them! Don't curse them; don't harm them! Pray for them, for they are a good part of the story, both for the good and for the bed; get understanding, and disarm the armed who seems to be a threat with wit and wisdom! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If only you would understand the silent speech and the real pain within the innermost man of they that suffer in silence, you would never keep silent to their suffering. So many people can't speak everything about how they are suffering for the sake of dignity and confidentiality. Though they smile, they smile out of a deep pain within. When you look at someone suffering, just see how he is suffering and in so far as you can, be the joy to the innermost man of the person to the best of your ability. Don't wait for his words, just look and see! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The different faces of all people on earth show that all people on earth have different hearts, mindset and understanding. He who understands people well understands the true meaning of maturity and knows how to act well towards people with a good understanding! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. ~ Carlos Fuentes

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. ~ Jeff Bezos

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

The secret of successful relationships is found in an understanding heart, preferably your own. ~ Dada J. P. Vaswani

You probably have your own scenes you've lived through---scenes where you think that if only people knew what was really going on, they might cut you some slack and help you. ~ Dave Furman

If you dont understand the MOTIVE, don't judge the means! ~ Stephen Magnus

Honestly, if I can't clearly understand the workings of a young innocent girl, like Ami, then how can I ever possibly expect to understand any other women? That chiefly was what was on my mind at that moment. Seriously, why should things which should be simple, like relationships between two people, be so complicated? Still, it doesn't matter if we go a bit wrong, because every time we go wrong in any relationship, if we care, we will always go in search of the solutions. ~ Andrew James Pritchard

It's really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it's not she but he who is confused ~ Amit Abraham

But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little use) and almost ignorant of Nature: Adler, reducing almost everything to the will to power: and Jung, certainly the most humane and gentlest of them, and possibly the greatest, but nevertheless the descendant of parsons and professors, and himself a super-parson and a super-professor. all men of extraordinary character, and they devised systems that are forever stamped with that character.… Davey, did you ever think that these three men who were so splendid at understanding others had first to understand themselves? It was from their self-knowledge they spoke. They did not go trustingly to some doctor and follow his lead because they were too lazy or too scared to make the inward journey alone. They dared heroically. And it should never be forgotten that they made the inward journey while they were working like galley-slaves at their daily tasks, considering other people's troubles, raising families, living full lives. They were heroes, in a sense that no space-explorer can be a hero, because they went into the unknown absolutely alone. Was their heroism simply meant to raise a whole new crop of invalids? Why don't you go home and shoulder your yoke, and be a hero too? ~ Robertson Davies

The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others. ~ Eraldo Banovac

There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others. ~ Tian Dayton

There was always something to learn from listening to and understanding people´s viewpoints. ~ Michelle Madow

They did not like each other particularly, would never have called one another friend or even have associated under different circumstances, and wherever they were, an argument seemed to lie only a few seconds' journey from them in any given direction.

But something had begun to grow between them as well--a sort of cooperative understanding--and the moments in which this was most obvious were the moments in which one of the two men would forgo his own strongly held way of being and embrace the other's, as if giving a moment of his life to his opposite in tribute. ~ Gavriel Savit

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

A friend who turned into an enemy thinks of you more than a friend who turned into just an acquaintance. ~ Amit Kalantri

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul. ~ Shannon Hale

You know, of course, that as prophesied by Moroni, there are those whose research relating to Joseph Smith is not for the purpose of gaining added light and knowledge but to undermine his character, magnify his flaws, and if possible destroy his influence. Their work product can sometimes be jarring, and so can issues raised at times by honest historians and researchers with no "axe to grind." But I would offer you this advice in your own study: Be patient, don't be superficial, and don't ignore the Spirit.

In counseling patience, I simply mean that while some answers come quickly or with little effort, others are simply not available for the moment because information or evidence is lacking. Don't suppose, however, that a lack of evidence about something today means that evidence doesn't exist or that it will not be forthcoming in the future. The absence of evidence is not proof. . . .

When I say don't be superficial, I mean don't form conclusions based on unexamined assertions or incomplete research, and don't be influenced by insincere seekers. I would offer you the advice of our Assistant Church Historian, Rick Turley, an intellectually gifted researcher and author whose recent works include the definitive history of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. He says simply, "Don't study Church history too little." While some honestly pursue truth and real understanding, others are intent on finding or creating doubts. Their interpretations may come from project ~ D. Todd Christofferson

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

What you think about a person is different from understanding a person. ~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

When we miss the meaning of a language, we miss the real essence and impact of communication. If we lose the real meaning of a language, we lose the real understanding of a language. Friendship is developed and nurtured through effective communication and that is the great tool that shapes friendship. A good communication, regardless of how short it might be is a great litmus paper that proves who a true friend or false friend is. A good communication does not only trigger the best bond but it also uncovers things in the heart that are hidden from the eyes. Without an effective communication, real friendship and real love between two great people is just like two great mountains with a valley between them. Without communication, we lose what we could have heard from real people. When we miss the meaning of a language, we miss the real essence and impact of communication!!! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People are shitty for a lot of reasons. Sometimes they're just shitty people. Sometimes people have been shitty to them and, even though they don't realize it, they take that shitty upbringing and go out into the world and treat others the same way. Sometimes they're shitty because they're afraid. Sometimes they choose to be shitty to others before others can be shitty to them. So it's like self-defensive shittiness. ~ Jennifer Niven

Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love. ~ Auliq Ice

When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming , no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming, she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear. ~ Amy Tan

Pilar, if anyone, should have understood how awful it was to be surrounded by people who had their own version of the truth. People who wouldn't listen to you long enough to know you at a ~ Charlotte Leonetti

Empathy healed the moment. Words were not necessary when compassion created understanding in grief. ~ Mala Naidoo

George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness to remain at cross-purposes, is in itself a kind of intimacy. ~ Christopher Isherwood

Something tells me you were never a Girl Scout. ~ Gwenda Bond

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our". ~ Steve Maraboli

There's no key to great relationships, there's simply a well worn welcome mat. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air. ~ Joshua Ferris

Love is its own reward. We do not have to worry about what other people think about us. We can never feel alone or isolated when we understand that it is impossible for love to leave our side. Love is all around us. ~ Donna Goddard

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. ~ Willa Cather

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it. ~ Sarah Dessen

The society might have a conditioned way of evaluation, classification or categorization of people.... in fact it has! But believe in a more free, humane and understanding way, until you are not harming, degrading and disrespecting another human being. ~ Hilal Hamdaan

No one understands betrayal like the one who has been betrayed. ~ Ken Poirot

We like to read others but we do not like to be read. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It's important, no doubt, to understand the person we love. If we cannot manage this, it's necessary, at least, to believe we understand them. I must confess that over the entire eight years I only rarely enjoyed the contentment of the second possibility, let alone the first. ~ Orhan Pamuk

The underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us ... ~ Barack Obama

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

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. ~ Emma Goldman

Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system. ~ Rebecca Saxe

But then, no one really got her. No one in the world understood. Hell, if she was honest with herself, not even she understood. ~ Lacey Alexander

Truth is, people will never recognize what has changed within you, what makes you tick, what sets your heart and soul on fire, or what causes a rage within your bloodstream, unless they yearn to understand your soul. ~ Kristin Michelle Elizabeth

I think we understand each other a little better, and that's never a bad thing. ~ Abigail Hilton

A common understanding is the pivot and a common way to bond the disintegrated ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Neither sex is wrong in their communication; both sexes need to learn how to understand each other. ~ Pamela Cummins

I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza ~ Lion Feuchtwanger

I will understand perfectly if you don't want to answer, but I will just keep pestering you until you do. ~ Douglas Adams

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations. ~ Lawrence Hill

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. ~ Carl Jung

When people accept their belief(s) as the die-hard truth, hearing a different view will always appear false (at first) because it opposes the ones they've already understood and accepted as their truth. ~ Renée Chae

Right to speak comes with a duty to listen. ~ Amit Kalantri

Looking is only for those who cannot see. ~ Donna Goddard

People are far more revealing by the questions they ask than the answer they give. To get closer to understanding what is really on someone's mind, answer their questions briefly so they ask follow-up questions. By their third question you'll get a glimpse of their biggest fear or desire on the topic. ~ Kare Anderson

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

Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others. ~ Eraldo Banovac

He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear. ~ Alfred The Great

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life. ~ Michelle Williams

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession. ~ Baltasar Gracian

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. ~ William Trevor

We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the crickets &
the dance of our voices
& for a moment
the world became
small enough to
roll back & forth
between us. ~ Brian Andreas

Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence. ~ Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

I don't think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it's about maintaining a militia. It's about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation. ~ Alec Wilkinson

True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together. ~ Hugh Prather

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding. ~ Bono

WHAT MAKES A GOOD LISTENER? 1. Not interrupting. 2. Showing that you empathize: not criticizing, arguing, or patronizing. 3. Establishing a physical sense of closeness without invading personal space. 4. Observing body language and letting yours show you are not distracted but attentive. 5. Offering your own self-disclosures, but not too many, or too soon. 6. Understanding the context of the other person's life. 7. Listening from all four levels: body, mind, heart, and soul. ~ Deepak Chopra

My school is very good and quite understanding and know I have to take time off for interviews or writers' festivals. ~ Alexandra Adornetto

The distinction often seems precarious. Both traveler and tourist are, by definition, separate from their environment. We like to think that the role we aspire to, the traveler, has that distance on the scene that implies vision and understanding, while the tourist suffers the alienation of the passive viewer, the "sightseer." At its worst, tourism is felt to represent a moral or spiritual failing. And in our hear we fear that we, too, are tourists. ~ Richard Todd

[A] people needs to understand what freedom is. We Americans are fortunate that the Founders and their generation possessed that understanding. They knew that freedom, per se, is not enough. They knew that freedom must be limited to be preserved. This paradox is difficult for many students to grasp. Young people generally think freedom means authority figures leaving them alone so they can "do their own thing." That's part of what it means to be free, but true freedom involves much, much more. As understood by our Founders and by the best minds of the young republic, true freedom is always conditioned by morality. John Adams wrote, "I would define liberty as a power to do as we would be done by." In other words, freedom is not the power to do what one can, but what one ought. Duty always accompanies liberty. Tocqueville similarly observed, "No free communities ever existed without morals." The best minds concur: there must be borders: freedom must be limited to be preserved.

What kinds of limits are we talking about?
* The moral limits of right and wrong, which we did not invent but owe largely to our Judeo-Christian heritage.
* Intellectual limits imposed by sound reasoning. Again, we did not invent these but are in debt largely to Greco-Roman civilization, from the pre-Socratic philosophers forward.
* Political limits such as the rule of law, inalienable rights, and representative institutions, which we inherited primarily from the British.
* ~ Russell Kirk

When you act on your impulses to play, when you are open to the possibilities in each moment, you replace your fears with self-understanding, self-esteem, and personal strength. ~ Sandra Magsamen

In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to discover crucial features of the world. Data and observations, in the sciences, have an instrumental character. They are of no particular interest in themselves, but only insofar as they constitute evidence that permits one to determine fundamental features of the real world, within a course of inquiry that is invariably undertaken under sharp idealizations, often implicit and simply common understanding, but always present. ~ Noam Chomsky

All at once, she was confronted with the full understanding of it. And if she admitted it to herself, she could only be left with the grotesque truth. She didn't want to let go of the pain. She didn't want it to be lessened. She wanted to carry it. And whatever path she took from this point forward would serve to take it away. ~ Dorothy Gravelle

She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away. ~ Vannetta Chapman

In a society where all are related, simple decisions require the approval of nearly everyone in that society. It is society as a whole, not merely a part of it, that must survive. This is the indigenous understanding. It is the understanding in a global sense. We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along. ~ Rebecca Adamson

Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding, ~ J. Christopher Stevens

You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams. ~ Suze Orman

When I'm playing the 1-guard, I'm kind of seeing everything that's going on. When I play the 2, I have a more broader understanding of what's going on and where the screens are being set in order for not only myself to get open, but for my teammates. ~ Kyrie Irving

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today. ~ Malcolm X

Unlike multiculturalism, cultural pluralism doesn't just mean diversity but also togetherness - primarily the understanding of the rules of the game - the European values structure. ~ Bassam Tibi

Analysis of error begins with analysis of language. ~ Hans Reichenbach

Their terror had the evasive quality of guilt: it was not the fear that comes from understanding, but from the refusal to understand. ~ Ayn Rand

In its totality, a raga is a combination of musical heritage, technical elements, emotional charge, cognitive understanding and aural identity. ~ T.M. Krishna