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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden. (Quote by - Goethe)
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. (Quote by - Henri Bergson)
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. (Quote by - H H Williams)
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. (Quote by - Van Gogh)
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. (Quote by - General Douglas MacArthur)
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. (Quote by - Adlai Stevenson)
To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom. (Quote by - Sid Mendenhall)
A single moment of understanding can flood a whole life with meaning. (Quote by - Anon xxxx)
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803)
Find peace with yourself by accepting not only what you are, but what you are never going to be. (Quote by - Anon xxxx)
Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)
Man is always inclined to be intolerant towards the thing, or person, he hasn't taken the time adequately to understand... (Quote by - Robert R. Brown)
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third (Quote by - Marge Piercy)
The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
Understanding is a two-way street. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe )
It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything. (Quote by - Rene Coty)
Seek first to understand and then to be understood. (Quote by - Stephen R. Covey)
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them. (Quote by - Vernon Howard)
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. (Quote by - Franz Kafka )
Contentment is accepting the world as an imperfect place. (Quote by - Anon xx)
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. (Quote by - Herman Melville 1819)
It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere. (Quote by - Charles The Bold)
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. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. (Quote by - Galileo Galilei)
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. (Quote by - Kurt Lewin )
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. (Quote by - Aristotle)
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. (Quote by - Claude Monet)
It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things. (Quote by - Joe Chung)
Again a different meaning has to be understood. (Quote by - Buddha)
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. (Quote by - John Locke)
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide." (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself. (Quote by - Princess of Wales Diana)
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams. (Quote by - Princess of Wales Diana)
If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering. (Quote by - Princess of Wales Diana)
The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson )
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. (Quote by - Guy Finley)
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine. (Quote by - J. William Fulbright)
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. (Quote by - Nikki Giovanni)
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand (Quote by - Vernon Howard)
A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. (Quote by - Henry James)
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism. (Quote by - V. I. Klassen)
The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands. (Quote by - Sheldon Kopp)
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely -- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. (Quote by - Jiddu Krishnamurti)
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. (Quote by - Lao-Tzu)
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. (Quote by - Harper Lee)
Folks never understand the folks they hate. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow men. (Quote by - Norvin Mcgranahan)
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill )
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. (Quote by - Joanne Kathleen Rowling)
Everyone hears only what he understands. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it (Quote by - Charles F. Kettering)
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. (Quote by - Upton Sinclair)
In youth we learn; in age we understand. (Quote by - Marie E. Eschenbach)
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women." (Quote by - Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle)
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde )
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done. (Quote by - Aaron Burr)
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Quote by - Marie Curie)
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better. (Quote by - Lyndon Johnson)
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. (Quote by - Plato)
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. (Quote by - Robert G Allen)
If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA. (Quote by - Bernard Arnault)
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
Both Russia and the U.S. understand now what's really going on at the Balkans and what needs to be done. We were searching for ways of settling the conflict, but it's a difficult task. (Quote by - Viktor Chernomyrdin)
No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
You do not understand even life. How can you understand death? (Quote by - Confucius)
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges of organizations: improving the abysmally low productivity of knowledge workers. (Quote by - Peter Drucker)
Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue. (Quote by - Peter Garrett)
We don't have in our culture a healthy understanding and respect for the value of Being, which is simply being present in the moment, not trying to go somewhere, not trying to accomplish anything but, just present. (Quote by - Shakti Gawain)
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. (Quote by - Lou Gerstner)
I would have to say from looking at the scene, as I've seen it, it appears there's a good chance it might be a total loss. (Quote by - Herb Kelleher)
Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union. (Quote by - Francois Mitterrand)
When this business was founded, it sought to win public confidence through service, for it was my conviction then, as it is now, that nothing else than right service to the public results in mutual understanding and satisfaction between customer and merchant. (Quote by - James Cash Penney)
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. (Quote by - Confucius)
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand. (Quote by - Gerhard Schroeder)
My goal is to help you understand what is "really" happening, the long energetic history that is just now being revealed. Then we will have the power to change things from the source, and the world itself will change. (Quote by - James Twyman)
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it. (Quote by - Boris Yeltsin)