123 quotes
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
— Seneca
“Only if we understand can we care and only if we care will we help and understanding begins with wonder”
— Jane Goodall
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Peace is what happens when patience meets understanding.”
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards”
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
— Albert Einstein
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood and understanding begins with wonder”
— Marie Curie
“Nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less”
“Life must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“Life must be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards and faith provides the courage to live forward”
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
“Understanding the past is essential for building a just future”
— Nikole Hannah-Jones
“Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.”
— Immanuel Kant
“Compassion is the highest form of love and the deepest form of understanding combined”
— Osho
“Understanding means throwing away your knowledge if we want to understand we must stop clinging to conclusions”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”
— Mencius
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you have understood all your life, but in a new way.”
— Doris Lessing
“Understanding is the other name of love. If you do not understand, you cannot love.”
“That is what learning is you suddenly understand something that you have understood all your life but in a new way”
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
— Mary Oliver
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
“In the understanding of compassion there is an intelligence that is far beyond mere thought”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“When you plant lettuce and it does not grow well you do not blame the lettuce you look for reasons with compassion”
“I believe in art as a tool for understanding life”
— Ernesto Neto
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding”
— Kahlil Gibran
“To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what they have already achieved but at what they aspire to through faith”
“The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.”
— Rumi
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
“Only if we understand can we care only if we care will we help only if we help shall they be saved”
“When you plant lettuce and it does not grow well, you do not blame the lettuce.”
“For the first time in my life I understood that time was the most precious thing there is”
— Hermann Hesse
“Much learning does not teach understanding.”
— Heraclitus
“If you cant explain it simply you dont understand it well enough”
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves”
“Understanding is always more than merely recreating someone elses meaning.”
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.”
“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding and wonder is the joy of not yet understanding”
“Understanding is a kind of ecstasy and the ecstasy of understanding is what we call wonder”
— Carl Sagan
— Khalil Gibran
“The best way to overcome fear is to understand it.”
— Nietzsche
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view and approach them with kindness”
— Harper Lee
“I do not understand; I pause; I examine.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still gently allows you to grow.”
— William Shakespeare
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better”
“Do not fear death, but fear a life that is not understood.”
— Socrates
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.”
“Before we can talk about simplicity we must understand complexity”
— Konosuke Matsushita
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“We can never judge the lives of others because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. Peace begins with understanding this.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It leads eventually to deeper peace.”
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
“In order to understand the world one has to turn away from it on occasion”
— Albert Camus
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”
— Solomon
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood”
“In youth we learn in age we understand our family bonds better.”
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
— Helen Keller
“Emptiness wrongly grasped is like picking up a poisonous snake by the wrong end.”
— Nagarjuna
“Life in a family can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”
— Oliver Sacks
“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
— Plato
“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. Peace requires understanding all sides.”
— John Stuart Mill
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards toward peace.”
“Nothing in family life is to be feared it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.”
“Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.”
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be”
— Charles Dickens
“Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things and finds peace in understanding.”
— Virgil
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards with wonder lighting the way”
“Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.”
“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.”
— Tokugawa Ieyasu
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
“Understanding someone deeply is already an act of compassion toward that person”
“Understanding is the foundation of love in family. When you understand someone you love them more deeply.”
“Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.”
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Everyone can see the stars, but few understand their greatness.”
— Galileo Galilei
“Compassion is not feeling sorry for others it is understanding their suffering and wanting to help”
— Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
— Dalai Lama V
“Have the courage to use your own understanding.”
“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better through a sense of wonder”
“Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“When another person makes you suffer it is because they suffer deeply within them and their suffering is spilling over they need kindness not punishment”
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
— Thoreau
“When another person makes you suffer it is because he suffers deeply within himself and his suffering is spilling over”
“The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.”
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