Understanding Others Quotes

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

~ Steve Maraboli

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

~ Criss Jami

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

~ Orson Scott Card

Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Shannon Hale

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

~ Shannon L. Alder

He who has little problems, shows little love. He who has overcome huge problems, has giant love. Because he understands what it means and won’t have others suffer like he did.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

Why don't we pay more attention to little children and be nice to each other.

~ Nurudeen Ushawu

All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

~ Kat Lahr

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

~ Stewart Stafford

In times of division and strife, build bridges to the hearts of those clouded by anger, hurt, hatred, and ignorance, so you can help open and understand their minds and hearts, and they can understand yours.

~ Imania Margria

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

It's ok to understand other people. But it's not enough. Advertence is necessary too. Because it's easy to understand abstract person if you're not a victim but outside observer. Imagine you say to friend who needs your help: I understand the man who stole from you because he was starved. Or that: I understand that scumbag who raped you because his wife ran out on him and he wanted to blow off steam. Only most hard-hearted person can say that.

~ Bryanna Reid

SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCEThe world we see with our senses is very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceives the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is to have no goal other than to understand. Understanding has to be the ultimate goal. Only then, can we solve the problems.

~ Petek Kabakci

SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCEThe world we see with our senses are very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceive the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is not to have any goal other than to understand. Understanding has to be the ultimate goal. Then, we can solve the problems.

~ Petek Kabakci

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

~ Eraldo Banovac

Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturity and understanding, where you do something which makes you stand out of crowd.

~ Amit Ray

It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will enrich the world. It’s is your ability and willingness to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, serve and support the lives of others that will.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

When we understand people; when we understand situations;when we understand what matters;when we understand the why’s, the what’s and the how’s;when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

May we love each other with brotherly love. Love cast out all fears.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There's more than what the eye can see, the heart can love, and the brain can understand.

~ Louise Philippe Dulay

if people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Continuous understanding goes with love, courage, respect, discovery and acceptance of mistakes.

~ Auliq Ice

Understanding someone, is the sign of True Maturity,Forgiving them is that of True Wisdom.

~ Drishti Bablani

Love endures every circumstance; Love never loses hope, never loses faith and never gives up.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.

~ Seth Adam Smith

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

~ Emma Goldman

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. God bless those who see beyond our flaws painted in bold strokes.

~ Nike Thaddeus

...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

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

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When someone is hurt andwe hear ourselves sayingI don't understand, whyPAUSEAt the pause, ask What am I missing here ?At the pause, stop judging, stop reacting,get curious and believe their hurt stateAt the pause, tap into their heart and mind.Now see how this pause transforms the conversation.

~ Wordions

Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

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

Just because I understand does not mean I agree.

~ Carlos Wallace