84 Quotes About Understanding Other

Sometimes we think we’re all alone in the world. We feel misunderstood, and we feel that no one understands what we’re going through. Maybe we’ve been hurt by people in the past, and we’re afraid to trust anyone again. But the truth is that everyone experiences pain, disappointment, and loss Read more

We all have difficult times in our lives, but when we understand others better, we can cope with difficulties in a better way. These understanding-others quotes can help you in your relationships and in your life.

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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...
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Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness. Criss Jami
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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
Your actions will always be what the world sees, but...
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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...
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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...
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Why don't we pay more attention to little children and be nice to each other. Nurudeen Ushawu
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All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding Rasheed Ogunlaru
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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...
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When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it. Stewart Stafford
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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
You will never get the best out of anyone professionally...
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You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally - as a human being Rasheed Ogunlaru
Pilar, if anyone, should have understood how awful it was...
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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
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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
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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
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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
A common understanding is the pivot and a common way...
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A common understanding is the pivot and a common way to bond the disintegrated Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation...
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Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others. Eraldo Banovac
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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
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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
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Let’s make the world brighter for that is all we need to be better! If I am bright and you are bright then the world will be brighter If I am dark and you are dark then the world will be darker Let’s make the world brighter for brightness is all we need to be better! Let’s make the world relevant for that is all we need to be relevant If I am relevant and you are relevant then we shall all be relevant If I am irrelevant and you are relevant then I will disturb your relevance Let’s make the world relevant for that is the epitome of life! Let’s make the world faithful for faithfulness is all we need to be faithful! If I am faithful and you are faithful then the world will be faithful If I am unfaithful and you are faithful then I will disturb your faithfulness Let’s make the world faithful for faithfulness is the fountain of peace . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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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
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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
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May we love each other with brotherly love. Love cast out all fears. Lailah Gifty Akita
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There's more than what the eye can see, the heart can love, and the brain can understand. Louise Philippe Dulay
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If people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Continuous understanding goes with love, courage, respect, discovery and acceptance of mistakes. Auliq Ice
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Understanding someone, is the sign of True Maturity, Forgiving them is that of True Wisdom. Drishti Bablani
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Love endures every circumstance; Love never loses hope, never loses faith and never gives up. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy. Seth Adam Smith
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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
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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
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Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. Emma Goldman
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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
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...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
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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
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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
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Walk with me for a while, my friend–you in my shoes, I in yours–and then let us talk. Richelle E. Goodrich
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When someone is hurt andwe hear ourselves saying" I don't understand, why" P A U S E At the pause, ask "What am I missing here ?"At the pause, stop judging, stop reacting, get curious and believe their hurt state At the pause, tap into their heart and mind. Now see how this pause transforms the conversation. Wordions
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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
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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
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Just because I understand does not mean I agree. Carlos Wallace
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She seems to always get it To have become adept at empathy Always giving excuses for people who’ve aggrieved her To 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 herself At that moment, she revels in the natural instinct of self-preservation She realises all this while the power she’s been withholding In a transcendent moment of epiphany It’s all beautiful ‘causeNow, she can get back to empathy with understanding, rather, than without. Ufuoma Apoki
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I think we understand each other a little better, and that's never a bad thing. Abigail Hilton
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The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel. Akilnathan Logeswaran
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If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers Steven Magee
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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
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It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one. Unknown
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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
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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
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Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love. Auliq Ice
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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
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Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues. Jay Woodman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It’s really very difficult to understand a woman — actually it’s not she but he who is confused Amit Abraham
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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
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The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others. Eraldo Banovac
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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
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What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship. Lorin MorganRichards
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake. Thomas Bernhard
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The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway
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There was always something to learn from listening to and understanding people´s viewpoints. Michelle Madow
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding. Tennessee Williams
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No one understands betrayal like the one who has been betrayed. Ken Poirot
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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
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I just want to understand how people misunderstand each other! Ramana Pemmaraju
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If life were perfect, we would never learn anything. Thus, never appreciate life. Zarina Bibi
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. Harper Lee
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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