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