Understanding Quotes

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Robert Hall

Friend, Opinion, Once

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
LaToya Jackson

Family, Future, Past

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

Peace, Cannot, Force

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

Good, Shallow, Ill

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou

Mother, School, Ignorance

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa

Love, Peace, Money

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

Love, Friendship, Good

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino

Life, Today, Kindness

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace, Through, Cannot

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher

Home, Woman, Country

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

Love, Success, Men

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung

Everything, Others, Ourselves

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
John Lennon

Life, Love, Peace

Understanding is a two-way street.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Khalil Gibran

Pain, Breaking, Shell

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
Oprah Winfrey

Spiritual, Deep, Feeling

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Tony Robbins

Different, Others, Realize

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
Alice Walker

Best, Gratitude, Humility

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu

Power, End, Until

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
Steve Jobs

Experience, Design, End

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
John Ruskin

Great, Mean, Doubt

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus

Good, Ignorance, Evil

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
Richard Bach

Find, Eyes, Show

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience, Words, Same

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck

Mother, Become, Compassion

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Soren Kierkegaard

Understand, Complaint, Poorly

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn

Food, Mind, Words

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear, Away, Learn

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