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When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations. -- Lawrence Hill
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. -- Jeff Bezos
There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others. -- Tian Dayton
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. -- Abraham Lincoln
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. -- Emma Goldman
We like to read others but we do not like to be read. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably. -- William Saroyan
The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. -- Carlos Fuentes
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. -- Carl Jung
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself. -- Andre Gide
Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength. -- Laozi
It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books. -- Baltasar Gracian
Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver. -- Deborah Tannen
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life. -- E. M. Forster
Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system. -- Rebecca Saxe
We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality. -- Ian Cohen
To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes. -- Haim Ginott
I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world. -- Ted Allen
Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals. -- Robert Lanza
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. -- Eric Hoffer
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Jung
If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves. -- Sarah Gadon
You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key. -- Rita Ora
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. -- Katherine Mansfield
Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. -- Paul D. Boyer
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. -- Chin-Ning Chu
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. -- John Locke
This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer. -- Farrah Fawcett
It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad. -- Umberto Eco
It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works. -- Nicholas Stern
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. -- John Searle
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. -- John W. Vessey, Jr.
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! -- Richard P. Feynman
Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially. -- Tom Freston
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings. -- Richard Eyre
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. -- Katherine Mansfield
Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others. -- John C. Maxwell
Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding. -- Miyamoto Musashi
There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own -- Kobe Bryant
Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others. -- Deepak Chopra
The key to all of life is understanding how to add value to others. -- Jay Abraham
The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions. -- Mike Svob
Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others. -- Nhat Hanh
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others. -- Voltaire
Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. -- Mikhail Lermontov
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others. -- Shirley MacLaine
The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others. -- Robert Jensen
It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results. -- John Templeton
The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others. -- Deborah Tannen
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. -- Dalai Lama
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. -- Dalai Lama
Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive. -- Benjamin Hoff
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others. -- Tom Robbins
I'm not politically active, but I'm saying [that] you can open up people's understanding of themselves and others with play. -- Jeppe Hein
The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate -- Larry Crabb
I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera. -- David Hurn
But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others. -- Libba Bray
Be more loving, compassionate and understanding with ourselves, with others, and with the planet, because we are all connected. We are one. -- Gisele Bundchen
The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others. -- Tony Orlando
Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again. -- Helen Steiner Rice
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others. -- Jack Kornfield
Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited. -- Edmar Mednis
Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Actions are most important in life: act with love, kindness, understanding, and compassion toward others that they may bear witness to your belief(s). -- Ken Poirot
A person does not lose so much own professional growth opportunity by knowing less, as much by understanding more than others on the personal level. -- Anuj Somany
The loftiness of understanding embraces all. It requires as much spirit to suffer the failings of others as it does to appreciate their good qualities. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...
Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves. -- David Jenkins
Love is treating yourself at least as well as you treat others, understanding when someone isn't good for you and knowing when it's time to walk away... -- BJ Morin
Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful. -- Joy Bryant
My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others. -- Vanna Bonta
Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity! -- Albert Einstein
Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have. -- Orson Scott Card
One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin

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