Understanding Sayings and Quotes
Sayings about Understanding
You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee
Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Favorite-Sayings Perspective Diversity
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Philo
Understanding is a two-way street.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Please sign-up on the form below to receive my free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email.
Thank you, Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way.
Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
And as he spoke of understanding,
I looked up and saw the rainbow leap
with flames of many colors over me.
- Black Elk
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The loving energy that I radiate into this world
is a gift beyond my own understanding.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding.
I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller
Understand Sayings
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
God is not what you imagine
or what you think you understand.
If you understand you have failed.
- Saint Augustine
Not until we are lost
do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand
that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho
We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is necessary for us to understand that
the only Active Principle is Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
Understand that the right to
choose your own path
is a sacred privilege.
Use it.
Dwell in possibility.
- Oprah Winfrey
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
If you can't explain it simply,
you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei
Understands Sayings
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
Hears Sayings
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
Man Sayings
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm Forbes
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
- Albert Schweitzer
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Thank you for visiting these quotes and sayings. See more Inspirational Sayings.
Please sign-up on the form below to receive my free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email.
Thank you, Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life. It Really Is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Read today's Inspirational Daily Quote and Insight
See readers' praise for Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote
