Understanding Others Quotes

She seems to always get itTo have become adept at empathyAlways giving excuses for people who’ve aggrieved herTo the point it’s hard for her to hit back when necessary All because she assumes she ‘understands’Then, one day . . .She finally stands up for herselfAt that moment, she revels in the natural instinct of self-preservationShe realises all this while the power she’s been withholdingIn a transcendent moment of epiphanyIt’s all beautiful ‘causeNow, she can get back to empathy with understanding, rather, than without.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

I think we understand each other a little better, and that's never a bad thing.

~ Abigail Hilton

The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.

~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers

~ Steven Magee

In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists. We know each other approximately, by external signs, and these serve well enough as a basis for society and even for intimacy. But people in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed. And this is why they often seem more definite than characters in history, or even our own friends; we have been told all about them that can be told; even if they are imperfect or unreal they do not contain any secrets, whereas our friends do and must, mutual secrecy being one of the conditions of life upon this globe.

~ E.m. Forster

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

~ Steve Goodier

Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love.

~ Auliq Ice

Things always appear clear and simple from behind glass. It is in the thick of tribulations that blurring details arise, complicating my life. You can't rightly judge me, nor can you assist, from a shielded viewpoint.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues.

~ Jay Woodman

the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us...

~ Barack Obama

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

~ Orson Scott Card

Hatred is prevalent on this earth because it requires no real effort, unlike the investment it takes to genuinely understand a person.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.

~ John Green

Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.

~ Bilal Tanweer

The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.

~ Eraldo Banovac

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

~ Samuel Johnson

What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship.

~ Lorin Morgan-Richards

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. And while I occasionally step over the line and into the world of the melodramatic, it is what I must do in order to communicate clearly and effectively. In order to make my point understood without question.

~ Garth Stein

Neither sex is wrong in their communication, both sexes need to learn how to understand each other.

~ Pamela Cummins

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

~ Sarah Dessen

It's a persons ego that leads them away. So I should say, let your mind be open to those things that affects your ego. Learn how to accept your mistakes and learn how to understand mistakes of others.

~ Jayson Engay

Your Temporary Santa, He says presents aren't important, but I think they are- not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say 'I understand you.

~ David Levithan

We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.

~ Thomas Bernhard

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

~ Ernest Hemingway

There was always something to learn from listening to and understanding people´s viewpoints.

~ Michelle Madow

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

~ Tennessee Williams

No one understands betrayal like the one who has been betrayed.

~ Ken Poirot

We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purposes, helps us not at all to thread the labyrinth each individual presents in his involution of feelings, desires and capacities; and we must resemble, in quickness of feeling, instinctive sympathy, and warm benevolence, the lovely daughter of Huntley, before we can hope to judge rightly of the good and virtuous of our fellow-creatures.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If life were perfect, we would never learn anything. Thus, never appreciate life.

~ Zarina Bibi

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

~ Harper Lee

If I tell you I am upset about everything that's going on around me, you will probably ask me why, half listening, half wandering away in your own train of thoughts...If I tell you I am happy, you will probably not bother to know why, congratulating me and forgetting..I should rather tell you I am fine, satisfied, you will probably tell me your own issues then, for which I will be all ears

~ Sanhita Baruah

When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don’t just shun them; don’t kill them! Don’t curse them; don’t harm them! Pray for them, for they are a good part of the story, both for the good and for the bed; get understanding, and disarm the armed who seems to be a threat with wit and wisdom!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don’t just shun them; don’t kill them! Don’t curse them; don’t harm them! Pray for them, for they are a good part of the story, both for the good and for the bad; get understanding, and disarm the armed who seems to be a threat with wit and wisdom! Life is not a one day journey, so be be careful!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don’t just shun them; don’t kill them! Don’t curse them; don’t harm them! Pray for them, for they are a good part of the story, both for the good and for the bad; get understanding, and disarm the armed who seems to be a threat with wit and wisdom! Life is not a one day journey, so be careful!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We look at other people's lives, & we see what looks like a beautiful, adventurous, wonderful or tragic life. But so seldom do we see or even understand that what we see isn't their lives. Especially nowadays with news feeds, & statuses, we see only the surface, with not hint at the inner workings.To me, it's like a movie. We see the culmination of ones efforts, work, hardships, difficulties, progress, & pains. On a big screen that is life, but so rare & seldom, do we every acknowledge nor see the directorial point of view. The metaphorical behind the screens.So while we view others lives with a romantic envy, sweet longing, disheartened sympathy, or joyous reverence. We are so oblivious to the fact that their lives take the same trials, hardships, wonders, difficulties, & joys as we, it's merely manifested in a different on screen production. My longing, is to see that which is off screen. The inner workings, mundane & trivial, as well as the intense & breathtaking because without it, the picture it culminated in would not be.If we only take things at face value, we'll miss the wonders of the inner working. That which lies beyond sight, hidden away within. While it is what appears without that we all see, that which lies within makes what we see make sense.And it's in understanding someone's life & situation, that you can come to value their life & them.

~ Trevor Driggers

If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

People are far more revealing by the questions they ask than the answer they give. To get closer to understanding what is really on someone’s mind, answer their questions briefly so they ask follow-up questions. By their third question you’ll get a glimpse of their biggest fear or desire on the topic.

~ Kare Anderson