Understanding Quotes · Page 37

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

— Agnes Repplier

It is desire that impels man to lose his discrimination and understanding, and thus commit wrong actions.

— Senora Roy

Only when you understand apathy and see beyond sympathy will you achieve empathy.

— Melchor Lim

You will never know what the truth is inside there unless you use your heart.

— Ky Vanchhay

The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.

— Muhammad Ali

Understanding why something happened does not help to reduce the problem.

— Richard Bandler

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

— Anonymous

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

— Paulo Coelho

I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to…

— Will Ferrell

“A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that…

— Samuel Butler

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

— Confucius

We need to have a unified understanding of our national heritage without losing our personal distinctives. The closer that national heritage is…

— Tony Evans

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be…

— Remy de Gourmont

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding…

— Phyllis McGinley

“However, why does it so often fail to dawn on them that if we’re smart enough to understand their instructions, we might…

— Naoki Higashida

Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish.

— Maya Tiwari

So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may…

— Diane Johnson

“Empathy is defined this way: “the ability to share and understand the feelings of another.” Women talking for hours at a lunch.…

— Wendy Walker

It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to…

— Jessie J

But the plain fact of the matter is that, for any person to successfully lead others, he or she must deal with…

— Donald T. Phillips

One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is.…

— James Gleick

“Pain is surprising; we cannot understand why we have been abandoned in love... why we are unable to sleep at night… Identifying…

— Alain de Botton

If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything,…

— Natalie Portman

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

— Andre Gide

Look into my eyes and hear what I'm not saying, for my eyes speak louder than my voice ever will.

— Anonymous

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

— William Shakespeare

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

— Laurence Sterne

“Just cuz you get to the end doesn’t mean you know what happened.”

— Karen Tei Yamashita

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

— Sun Ra

Reaction is what changes your understanding of the world.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

The good thing about having your back against the wall is that every issue is in front of you

— Gee Linder

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

— Anonymous

Sometimes, you need to know your place in someone's life. Because, you might get hurt if you expect too much.

— Anonymous

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

— Bono

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

— Moses Mendelssohn

For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself.

— Jacob Collier

Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.

— Robert Henri

The key to all of life is understanding how to add value to others.

— Jay Abraham

Those who don't know the value of loyalty can never appreciate the cost of betrayal.

— Anonymous