Understanding Quotes

Man is always inclined to be intolerant towards the thing, or person, he hasn't taken the time adequately to understand...

Robert R. Brown

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Harry S. Truman

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third

Marge Piercy

The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand

Chinese Proverb

Understanding is a two-way street.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If the human brain were simple enough to understand, we'd be so simple we couldn't.

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It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

Rene Coty

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Nikki Giovanni

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Vernon Howard

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Franz Kafka

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Soren Kierkegaard

Contentment is accepting the world as an imperfect place.

Anon xx

Find peace with yourself by accepting not only what you are, but what you are never going to be.

Anon xxxx

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

Marcus Aurelius 121

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Arnold Bennett

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville 1819

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

Charles The Bold

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Charles Baudelaire

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Kahlil Gibran

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Kahlil Gibran

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