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We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others. — Curtis Sittenfeld

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

Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others. — Libba Bray

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement. — Bryant McGill

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding. — Tennessee Williams

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others. — Deepak Chopra

Just because I understand does not mean I agree. — Carlos Wallace

We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth. — Bryant McGill

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. — Carlos Fuentes

Knowledge can be acquired from others. Understanding is your own. — Sunil Malhotra

I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza — Lion Feuchtwanger

We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake. — Thomas Bernhard

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. — Willa Cather

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. — Thich Nhat Hanh

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

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

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. — Emma Goldman

We are far more revealing by the questions we ask than the answers we give. Answer briefly to sense where their questions are heading. — Kare Anderson

Neither sex is wrong in their communication; both sexes need to learn how to understand each other. — Pamela Cummins

Patience graciously, compassionately and with understanding, judges the faults of others without unjust criticism. — Billy Graham

If the key to life is figuring yourself out; family must be the lock. — LDarnell

Everyone pretended to understand so as not to interrupt. — Rene Daumal

When we know what we most fear, we know what we most care about. — Patti Digh

Come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words ... — John Geddes

It is logical to say that ignorance seems to be the root cause of all human suffering. — Kat Lahr

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations. — Lawrence Hill

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Person A understand Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A. — Haruki Murakami

though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. — Ernest Hemingway,

Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues. — Jay Woodman

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself. — Andre Gide

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

It is the understanding of others and the awareness of their needs, that the ambassador of CHRIST should strive to cultivate — Larry Crabb

Our pasts often set our circumstances. — Katherine Russell

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. — Abraham Lincoln

But then, no one really got her. No one in the world understood. Hell, if she was honest with herself, not even she understood. — Lacey Alexander

To realize God's undeserving love is to continually love others — Sunday Adelaja

The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions. — Mike Svob

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

The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others. — Robert Jensen

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

The moment we refuse to hurt others because of our own pain, is the time we evolve as souls. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others. — Voltaire

Offenses offend, beware! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. — C. G. Jung

I think we understand each other a little better, and that's never a bad thing. — Abigail Hilton

Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination — LDarnell

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

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

Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength. — Laozi

Your own guilt is your own fault. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it. — Stewart Stafford

The ability to connect with others begins with understanding the value of people. — John C. Maxwell

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

Focus on understanding yourself instead of blaming others. — Wayne W. Dyer

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

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

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

A person at peace can immediately recognize a consciousness in crisis, whereas those in crisis cannot fully understand themselves or others. — Bryant McGill

The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel. — Akilnathan Logeswaran

There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own — Kobe Bryant

We should strive to understand the weakness of others. — Ellen G. White

Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy. — Seth Adam Smith

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

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In English we blame others for not understanding us when really it's our fault for not saying what we wanted to say. — Rory Dunlop

Nothing is wrong with her that is dangerous or harmful. She just feels deeper than others — Abbi Glines

Continuous understanding goes with love, courage, respect, discovery and acceptance of mistakes. — Auliq Ice

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship. — Lorin Morgan-Richards

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. — John Green

Time doesn't always heal all wounds. — A.J. Darkholme

We like to read others but we do not like to be read. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

If God gives you comfort, extend a comforting hand unto others. If God saves you, extend a saving hand unto others — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

the greatest clue to changing people is to know and understand what trigger change in people and effectively apply such things in wisdom. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Be more loving, compassionate and understanding with ourselves, with others, and with the planet, because we are all connected. We are one. — Gisele Bundchen

When the world kicks your ass, don't step in line.
book: stuff i think about — Sondra Faye

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

Ignorance is an illusion; we seek understanding. Compassion paves the way towards understanding and understanding paves the way towards acceptance. — Alaric Hutchinson

The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others. — Deborah Tannen

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others. — Alexandre Dumas

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others. — John C. Maxwell

Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding. — A.J. Darkholme

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

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our". — Steve Maraboli

Through the mind and judgment,
it is not possible to understand
oneself and others.
True understanding is
a compassionate heart. — Human Angels

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul. — Shannon Hale

It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results. — John Templeton

Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever. — Dannye Williamsen

Walk with me for a while, my friend - you in my shoes, I in yours - and then let us talk. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others. — Mahatma Gandhi

Evil spawns evil. The first experience of torture gives an understanding of the pleasure in tormenting others. — Mikhail Lermontov

To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines. — Rod McKuen