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Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. — Letitia Landon

People still use the expression 'zhi yin' to mean 'close friends' or 'soul mates,' but what it really means is 'understanding music — Cassandra Clare

You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least. — Lou Holtz

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe. — Murray Gell-Mann

Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding, — J. Christopher Stevens

God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era. — Abdolkarim Soroush

I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people. — Volker Bertelmann

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything. — Agnes Repplier

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes. — Robert Genn

The lesson? Powerful people sometimes do things to help people like me without really understanding people like me. — J.D. Vance

The first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die. — Gertrude Diamant

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently. — Criss Jami

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage. — Adam Duritz

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous. — Criss Jami

Their terror had the evasive quality of guilt: it was not the fear that comes from understanding, but from the refusal to understand. — Ayn Rand

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional. — Nathan Sawaya

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding — John Knowles

Many people are good at talking and bad at understanding, — Teresa Of Avila

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

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. — George Orwell

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace. — Shannon L. Alder

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted — Carl Sandburg

When you truly love someone, his/her weaknesses are not meant to be discussed with other people, they are meant to be understood by you. — Olaotan Fawehinmi

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives. — Jack Nicholson

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding. — Richard P. Feynman

And what makes people work is an idea worth working for, along with a clear understanding of what needs to be done. — Michael E. Gerber

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. — Jeff Bezos

Leave people to their opinions and judgements. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours. — Leon Brown

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. — Louis L'Amour

The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it. — Confucius

An inner ease spreads inside me. Such is the power of acceptance and understanding from other people, the power of validation — Kiera Van Gelder

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

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them. — Ralph G. Nichols

Why the man had to have an entourage of ten people everywhere he went was beyond his scope of understanding. Most things about the Senator were. — Randall Wood

People say:
'Let the facts speak for themselves'; they forget that the speech of facts is real only if it is heard and understood. — Ernst F. Schumacher

People should always find support and understanding in you. Then they will support you 100%. — Sunday Adelaja

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them. — Jose Saramago

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

the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They — George Orwell

When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

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

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise. — Nicholas Sparks

A good fight starts with the understanding that in order for a fight to be successful, both people have to win. — Dossie Easton

No, its not, because you can see into the future if you have basic understanding of how people are likely to act. — John Green

You can't see a person more nakedly than that, when they don't know they're being watched, studied. — Jo Nesbo

Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level. — Carol W. Greider

People always say to be careful not to confuse sex and love, but I think they should be more wary of confusing love and understanding. — M.E. Thomas

Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me. — Joe Jonas

When you realize your purpose, it brings understanding deep within you — Sunday Adelaja

It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people. — Joe Rogan

As your life goes on you should gain a deeper understanding of the world and the people moving through it; but that might be asking too much. — James Scott

We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture. — Margaret Thatcher

Really, it's not people who don't understand us who drive us nuts - it's when those who shouldn't, do. — Pauline Kael

My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there. — Matt Chandler

So, why are so many people lacking in an understanding of the rules? No one has ever taught them! — John J. Daly Jr.

If your best friends do not read books, they reads you. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

People think "monsters" are born without origin. But it is the monsters that have the greatest stories to tell ... — Charles Lee

One woman said, "Shame is hating yourself and understanding why other people hate you too. — Brene Brown

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience ... How would they know? — Marvin Minsky

I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I've made a career out of it now. — Ozzy Osbourne

I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families. — Jose Andres

I've played so many moms, best friends, sisters and understanding people. — Rita Wilson

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences. — Suzy Kassem

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it. — Malcolm Bradbury

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever. — Donald A. Norman

It is only when people don't know history well that they judge the present so blindly in ignorance! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined. — Niels Diffrient

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. — Edwin H. Friedman

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer. — Stanley Clarke

The less people know, the more they talk. The less people understand, the more they try to explain. — Vironika Tugaleva

Aronson's first law:

People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy. — Elliot Aronson

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

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves. — Sam Brownback

What people don't understand, they laugh at. — Geraldine McCaughrean

The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work. — Vince Staples

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world. — Seamus Heaney

There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Sometimes understanding other people's problems is the key to finding opportunities. — Donald J. Trump

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

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

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do. — Vironika Tugaleva

Dialogue between people of differing views is critical for fostering understanding in a democracy. — Alex Gibney

Stay focused! Know where you are heading towards in life with your life! People going somewhere don't just go anywhere! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference. — Libba Bray

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

Every human being has to have compassion and try to be understanding, and that goes double for people who share your blood, — Kristen Ashley

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it. — David Bowie

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

What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected in them. — John Hubner

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. — Steve Prefontaine

I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world. — Lech Walesa

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations. — Sienna Miller

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action. — Hazel Hawke

The New Economy brings the need to tap people's curiosity, quest for knowledge and understanding, in order to develop a sustainable society. — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

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

How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other? — Lester B. Pearson