Understanding Quotes

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In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understandingâ€”in… — Mikhail Bakhtin
If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading… — Mortimer Adler
An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately… — Carl Rogers
Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended, it satisfies our… — Carl Rogers
The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is… — Zhuangzi
The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell — Heinz Kohut
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more… — John Warnock
What evidence is there that we've adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within has received full… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Intellectual understanding blocks empathy. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The best way I can get understanding from another person is to give this person the understanding, too. If I want them to hear my… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The Chinese philosopher Chuang-Tzu stated that true empathy requires listening with the whole being: The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others. — Robert Jensen
The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear… — Sydney J. Harris
Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think… — Nhat Hanh
On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront… — Barack Obama
A respectful understanding of another's experience. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. — Ram Dass
Understanding people's difficulties and-just as crucial-helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with… — Kathryn Erskine

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