Empowerment Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

People like to understand and categorize things in order to understand.

— Max Riemelt

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

— John Baldessari

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

— Anonymous

Understanding is a lot like sex; it’s got a practical purpose, but that’s not why people do it normally.

— Frank Oppenheimer

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

— John C. Maxwell

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

— Charlize Theron

In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the…

— Lisa Randall

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

People want something that's relevant to their lives. They want something that means something to them, and they want something where it seems like…

— Boots Riley

People feel like they are in turmoil and confusion, but that space of understanding also exists, and the initiations lift that density off them…

— Christine McCormick Day

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

— David Sedaris