People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
by Soren Kierkegaard
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Related topics: Wisdom Cynical Psychology Philosophy
Sayings by Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Pleasure disappoints, possibility never
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards;
but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose oneself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The tyrant dies and his rule is over,
the martyr dies and his rule begins
- Soren Kierkegaard
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer doesn't change God, but changes him who prays
- Soren Kierkegaard
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Faith is the highest passion in a human being.
Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Soren Kierkegaard
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you read God's Word, you must
constantly be saying to yourself,
"It is talking to me, and about me."
- Soren Kierkegaard
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner
in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever
- Soren Kierkegaard
People Sayings
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The enlightened give thanks
for what most people take for granted.
- Michael Beckwith
If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People love chopping wood.
In this activity one immediately sees results.
- Albert Einstein
I honor all people and cultures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Forgiveness of all people and all acts -
is a sure path to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now ...
it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
- Gerald Jampolsky
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I love the contradictions of people
- Jewel
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
God is equally available to all people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
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