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Oh that's right Keep away from me Please give me a pushDon't let me understand you Don't realise meOr we might tumble togetherDepersonalizedIdenticalInto the terrific NirvanaMe you --- you --- me
— Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood—heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant.
— Deborah Tannen, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
There comes a time when attachments no longer clasp you; the drift begins slowly and you can comprehend that all relationships are hollow, phoney and transient.
— Balroop Singh
When your view is criticized or even ridiculed on television, on radio talk show, or in a newspaper editorial, don't just react angrily. Take a moment to jot down on paper the person's main thesis and how that thesis was supported. Then do two things. First, assume the person is expressing at least some good points and try to identify them. This assumption may be false, but the search for common ground with intellectual opponents is a good habit. In the process of identifying these good points, try to argue against your own view. Second, try to state on paper exactly how you would argue against the view being expressed in an intellectually precise yet emotionally calm way.
— J.P. Moreland, Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul
To truly understand a man, you must look at his enemies.
— R.A.Delmonico
When we are looking for the unexpected, we are not only looking for the unexpected in ourselves, but we are also curious about the unexpected in the behavior of the others. So as to know the others, we have got to learn how and where they differ from us. By understanding this, we are able to establish an uplifting link with otherness. ( "Looking for the unexpected" )
— Erik Pevernagie
You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
The lack of understanding does not hurt, as much as the lack of effort to understand does !
— Wordions
Coincidences are the explanations of lazy and cowardly people for what they don't understand.
— Patricia Nedelea, Constant Guests
Maybe you don’t need to understand her
—  maybe you just need to want to.
The most fundamental laws of physics are not restrictions on the behaviour of matter. Rather, they are restrictions on the way physicists may describe that behaviour.
— Victor J. Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
What I have with you, I do not want with anyone else.
— Moosa Rahat
You don't have to thank me. I love you.
— Jessica Calla, She Laughs In Pink
The more power you use--the more detailed the observation of your specimen.The more power you have, the narrower your field of vision.Exactly, you say. The more power you have, my friends, the less you see of the whole.
— Rosemary Nixon
Debates should always move in the direction of understanding.
— R.A.Delmonico
What were the Mechanic's elders like? She had said they were like his own, strange though that sounded. Did they listen to her? Had she passed on the warning, only to have her elders dismiss her words as Alain's elders had dismissed his?He suddenly felt certain that this Mechanic had no choice but to go onward to danger. Once again, he knew how she must feel. A strange sensation, worrisome. How to make it go away? How to release the hold she had placed upon him?She had saved his life. Alain almost smiled before he caught himself. That was it. Several times she had "helped" him. The Mechanic had used that to influence him. No wonder the elders warned against helping. How to cancel it out? Like cancelled like. Power could defeat power. She had saved him, she had helped him. He would help her, perhaps even save her life. That would cancel whatever the Mechanic had done to him. He would be free of her. The logic had no flaws.
— Jack Campbell, The Dragons of Dorcastle
To understand is to forgive.
— Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Without complicit submission, authority holds no power.
— Priscilla Vogelbacher, Hallowed Be Thy Name: Lucifer, Origins & Revelation
The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points.
— Shannon L. Alder
If I Ain't Got You"Some people live for the fortuneSome people live just for the fameSome people live for the powerSome people live just to play the gameSome people think that the physical thingsDefine what's withinAnd I've been there beforeBut that life's a boreSo full of the superficial[Chorus:]Some people want it allBut I don't want nothing at allIf it ain't you, babyIf I ain't got you, babySome people want diamond ringsSome just want everythingBut everything means nothingIf I ain't got youSome people search for a fountainThat promises "forever young"Some people need three dozen rosesAnd that's the only way to prove you love themHand me the world on a silver platterAnd what good would it be?With no one to shareWith no one who truly cares for me[Chorus:]If I ain't got you with me, babySo nothing in this whole wide world don't mean a thingIf I ain't got you with me, baby
— Alicia Keys
Not to understand something is better than misunderstanding it.
— Vj Nadar
Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.
— Jonathan Cainer
So grateful for those who truly love me... they hear everything I don't say.
— Steve Maraboli
Then I give her a grim shake of my head and say aloud, 'This blows ass.' She nods sympathetically. She doesn't understand, but of course, in her way she understands completely.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
She was always at her best with him, with a delightful feeling of being understood. To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
— L.M. Montgomery
It is with our voices we remember, with our ears we understand.
— Elizabeth   Hunter, The Singer
What is in your mind position or disposition your mind, body and spirit in the best or worst way. What you are yet to accept into your mind exposes your mind to and keep your mind on what you are yet to accept and what has not yet come into your mind least controls your mind, body and spirit. Mind your mind!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The more we understand the One Idea, how all of life is interconnected and interdependent, the more we can act in positive ways for the good of all.
— Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action
Satan will always whisper don't care, be silent, you didn't do anything wrong, your better than them, your stronger than your enemies. However, a true daughter or son of God says back: I hurt so I will make it right. I was silent, but now I am ready to listen and share. I am not better because I know what I have done. I am not stronger than my enemies by hating them, but by healing them.
— Shannon L. Alder
It is our Spiritual nature to understand, accept and allow our human nature.
— Maximus Freeman
When we practice self-compassion in our lives, we are compelled to be more understanding and accepting toward ourselves.
— Jose Incer, Mastering Success: The Key to Self Empowerment and Higher Consciousness
A Course in Miracles says we think we're going to understand people in order to figure out whether or not they're worthy of our love,  but that actually, until we love them, we can never understand them.  What is not loved is not understood.  We hold ourselves separate from people and wait for them to earn our love, but people deserve our love because of what God created them to be.  As long as we're waiting for them to be anything better, we will constantly be disappointed.  When we choose to join with them through approval and unconditional love, the miracle kicks in for both parties. This is the primary key, the ultimate miracle, in relationships.
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
I think we understand each other a little better, and that's never a bad thing.
— Abigail Hilton, Hunters Unlucky
The more you learn about other people, the more you understand yourself; and the more you understand yourself, the more you understand other people.
— Father Brown
How many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often – he searched for a simile, found one in his work – torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Winning and Loosing is a part of game,Arrogance is the animal you need to tame,Conscience is the thing which can get you fame,Oh GOD !! please help me to do the same.
— Rajinder Singh Gill
Assumptions should never be the basis of any understanding.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.
— Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic
The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
Love is not merely need alone, & what is more important is loving you, & making my true nature comprehensible to you.
— Qiu Miaojin, Last Words from Montmartre
There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced.
— Anthony Liccione
Worry is the destroyer of understanding.
— Dada Bhagwan
Absolution is not the same as understanding.
— Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors
What we understand and love understands and loves us also.
— Robert Walser
- If no one understands anything in the same way, what use is communication? - The best way to recycle empty soup cans is to tie a string to them and talk to yourself - from up to a mile away.
— Stefan D
Feeling leads to understanding, understanding leads to sympathizing, sympathizing leads to action, and with action, we can change the world. - Maya Dehlin
— John Meyer, Bullying Under Attack: True Stories Written by Teen Victims, Bullies + Bystanders
You play the hand you’re dealt. You play it without false hope or despair, without comparing other people’s hand, or questioning why you’ve got this hand, you just play it, as best you can, today, and the next day, and the day after that.
— Lindsey O'Connor, The Long Awakening, a memoir
Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
While reading, we can leave our own consciousness, and pass over into the consciousness of another person, another age, another culture. "Passing over," a term used by the theologian John Dunne, describes the process through which reading enables us to try on, identify with, and ultimately enter for a brief time the wholly different perspective of another person's consciousness. When we pass over into how a knight thinks, how a slave feels, how a heroine behaves, and how an evildoer can regret or deny wrongdoing, we never come back quite the same; sometimes we're inspired, sometimes saddened, but we are always enriched. Through this exposure we learn both the commonality and the uniqueness of our own thoughts -- that we are individuals, but not alone.
— Maryanne Wolf
She knew his secrets, knew him inside out.Humans could never know each other that way.They could never really get into another person's head.All the talking in the world couldn't even prove that you and the other person saw the same colour red.
— L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
What made you fall in love with a prostitute?'I didn't understand it myself at the time. But I've thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.''Weren't you jealous?"'You can't say to the spring: "Come now and last as long as possible." You can only say: "Come and bless me with your hope, and stay as long as you can.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
those who get upset for being treated the way that they treat others, will never understand why others treat them the way that they treat others.
— David H. Martinez
One day I hope you understand when you reached out your hand, I grasped it, I never let it go.
— Kaitlin D.S. Cammie
Disappointment resides in expectation. Showing a little regard creates consideration, which results in understanding. Steps to a peace of mind.
— Tyconis D. Allison Ty
But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don’t you think?
— Tove Jansson, Travelling Light
When we try to understand another, we reveal ourselves, and in revealing ourselves we are able to be understood. Our heart declares itself to another heart, and that which is common between us becomes the bridge over which understanding crosses.
— Kent Nerburn, Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace: Living in the Spirit of the Prayer of St. Francis
Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human.
— Steven Magee
All beliefs and understanding about everything in this universe that you currently hold to be true, are false.
— Mamur Mustapha
Understanding comes out of immense love, which is harder to get in life.
— Debolina Bhawal
She’d shown him in a thousand ways that she was honorable and strong and generous and very human, maybe even more vividly human than anyone he’d ever known. And if she was, then Grisha weren’t inherently evil. They were like anyone else—full of the potential to do great good, and also great harm. To ignore that would make Matthias the monster.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
They fear as I once feared you,” he said. “As you once feared me. We are all someone’s monster, Nina
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.
— T.K. Naliaka, In Time of Peril
A man's capable of understanding anything - how the ether vibrates, and what's going on in the sun - but how any other man can blow his nose differently from him, that he's incapable of understanding.
— Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
It's easy to take the time to stop and smell the roses but one must be willing to give of themselves enough to also stop to admire and understand life's weeds. Colleen Dougherty 10/2015
— Colleen Dougherty
Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.
— Claude Bernard
The great minds, which from time to time have existed in this world, were like doors thrown wide to understanding. I don't mean just their brilliance or philosophy or even psychology. I mean that the spoken words that have endured are those uttered by men who understood with their hearts.No one on earth understands everything; that all-comprehensive function belongs to God alone. But we all try to understand a little. Most of us realize that too late. We look back and think: If only I'd tried to understand. Many failures in human relationships derive from this common failure.Watching the birds flock to discuss their travels among the brilliant leaves, listening to the slow turning of the earth upon her axis, meditating on Nature herself, never uncertain no matter how uncertain her manifestations may be, I think of the instinct that sends the birds from one locality to another, of the lengthening shadows as we face toward autumn, and of the marvelous system that encourages the leaf to fall and nurture the soil. In the single flame of October it begins the lullaby that will put the roots of grass and flowers to sleep. This system, in the four seasons of my little world, will cover the ground with silent snow, and at a later date will shout that spring is coming and awaken sleepers to new life.The sun in his glory, the moon in her phases, the stars in their courses, all these are part of the system; and Nature, turning the wheel of the seasons, understands what she must accomplish.Each in our own way, I suppose, we try to understand what we must accomplish. Perhaps the most important thing of all is the attempt to understand others.
— Faith Baldwin, Evening Star
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none... Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.
— Ray Bradbury
Enlightenment doesn't disconnect you from the world, rather it gives you a deep understanding of it.
— Jiulio Consiglio
Understand the flaws and you will know the perfection of the Universe.
— Ka Chinery
Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding.
— Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
i know, i know.... you want me to see it the way you see it. the way you interpreted it to be. its alright. that's finebut i want us both to see it the way Christ sees it. Thats why i don't bother to argue
— Mary Tornyenyor
Never again!" commanded his will. "Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.
— Hermann Hesse
We are all accountable for our actions
—  their affect and influence on our lives and the lives of others. Understanding the true meaning of accountability makes us strong and enables us to learn
Understanding doesn't leave room for anger, hurt or fear.
— C.M. Rayne, The Forbidden Land of Andara
Miss Selina, you have over the past minutes—as in the past months, and indeed, in all the years of your association with him—demonstrated an understanding of Master Bruce, his aspirations, his desires and his demons, that would be the envy of his closest colleagues, who believe they know him better than anybody. It is quite impossible to credit your fear that you ‘will not be good at this,’ for there is clearly no one in his life better suited to comfort him in tragedy, rejoice with him in triumph, and keep him from being alone in the days and nights in between. If he should ‘give up hope,’ I have no doubt you would manage the situation with the same sublime felinity you have used to such advantage in the past. Now drink your tea, young woman, and the next time you enjoy, or even sniff, this particular brew, I dare say you will understand how it helps.
— Chris Dee, Polishing Silver: The Journal of Alfred Pennyworth
Death is another inevitable consequence of possessing something without its understanding
— Sunday Adelaja
You can know an animal - or a person, for that matter - in an instant, really, though your understanding can go on unfolding for years.
— Mark Doty
Vomit and shit, even your own, stink.
— Sheeja Jose, Goodbye Girl
Can we be clear about who we are, what we want? Can we be fully present in our truth, and communicate that? Can we understand each other?
— Jay Woodman
Death is another inevitable consequence of possessing something without its understanding.
— Sunday Adelaja
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer
— Sunday Adelaja
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer.
— Sunday Adelaja
Sometimes it helps to swim to the other side of our understanding just to make sure all is well
— SWANSH
It appears that the paradigm of the modern Church has mainly been based on some fragments of the truth rather than the comprehensive totality of understanding God and His Kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
There are two types of understanding in this world. There's the kind that comes from the reading and the hearing, and it doesn't penetrate the skin. It is surface knowledge, like a soft blanket that can be placed over the shoulders. And then there's the understanding that comes from doing. That kind of understanding is not soft. It is water that soaks into the rocks and earth, and makes the seeds grow. It is messy, and painful, and impossible to hold.
— Aliya Whiteley, The Beauty
He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.
— Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
Knowledge evolves, understanding matures and wisdom progresses. Don't be so hung up on what you think you know.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
Knowing is never the same with understanding.
— Joshua Suya Pelicano
Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and you could be continents away for all it means anything.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
To see more than a reflection requires us to filter what we see, to view the world with honest eyes.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world’s language, that it’s different for every world. And I thought she meant they didn’t speak Galach on Arrakis, but she said that wasn’t it at all. She said she meant the language of the rocks and growing things, the language you don’t hear just with your ears. And I said that’s what Dr. Yueh calls the Mystery of Life.” Hawat chuckled. “How’d that sit with her?” “I think she got mad. She said the mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. So I quoted the First Law of Mentat at her: 'A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
— Frank Herbert
The world we see is beyond our understanding but not beyond our love.
— Marty Rubin
Get specific sooner and reap many rewards. The specific detail or example proves the general conclusion, not the reverse. The more specific you are abut anything the more clear you become, for yourself and in telling others. Thus you reduce the chance of others misunderstanding you. And you become more compelling, credible and memorable.
— Kare Anderson, Mutuality Matters How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others
Good is equal to Order While,Evil is equal to FreedomDoes it make sense to you? It does for me.
— James Eugeñio
Knowledge evolves, understanding matures & wisdom progresses.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
Can you start a movement in your land that will encourage men and women to begin to think, to begin to make sound judgement and informed decisions? Will you bring illumination to your people? Will you facilitate understanding amidst those whom you live with? The earth is crying for people who make sound judgement and informed decisions.
— Sunday Adelaja
We must not learn to try harder. The key is to learn how not to try in the first place.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
When there is alignment and understanding, it is much easier to navigate forward together, moving in and out of agreement.
— Karen Kimsey-House, Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to Lead
Many generations are dependent on a man's understanding of his appointed purpose in life.
— Sunday Adelaja
Mental understanding cannot change our life, unless it becomes real understanding.
— Sunday Adelaja
People should always find support and understanding in you. Then they will support you 100%.
— Sunday Adelaja
In order to grasp the principles of spiritual growth, you need to be filled with understanding and the wisdom of God.
— Sunday Adelaja
The person who understands that God is the only One who builds, becomes His beloved. And to that kind of pastor God will give sleep.
— Sunday Adelaja
Mutual understanding and help are the foundation of a strong team.
— Sunday Adelaja
Only the one who has the understanding of time will be ready to give an account to the Lord for what He did on this earth.
— Sunday Adelaja
Understanding moulds the life of a man and governs it.
— Sunday Adelaja
Understanding is aggregated knowledge that has transformed into a lifestyle.
— Sunday Adelaja
Understanding of divine truths preserves and protects a man in any situation.
— Sunday Adelaja
The church is strong when she lives by divine understanding.
— Sunday Adelaja
Through the many years of what I thought was 'searching', was really the process of 'awakening'.
— Ka Chinery, Perceptions from the Photon Frequency: The Ascended Version
People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
In my opinion, at least, the splendid achievements of Alexander are the clearest possible proof that neither strength of body, nor noble blood, nor success in war even greater than Alexander's own... that none of these things, I say, can make a man happy, unless he can win one more victory in addition to those the world thinks so great---the victory over himself.
— Arrian
Well, this is how I feel: I want to live by the ocean but also in the forest but also in the mountains but also in a big city but also in the countryside. Do you understand me?
— Anonymous
I am a pioneer now, looking onto a promised land.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
She sniffed, and smiled a bit, but not too much because if there is one thing worse than someone who doesn't understand you it's someone who understands perfectly, before you've had a chance to have a good pout about not being understood.
— Terry Pratchett, Diggers
If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers
— Steven Magee
It’s easy to love those we like, but what about those we don’t, and why would we anyways? There may be someone who doesn’t like us, yet they’re accepting of us, unconditionally loving us.Love means, I accept you as someone as imperfect as I am, someone who wants security and acceptance, someone who may be scared and shows it in the wrong ways, someone who is as worthy of my understanding, love, and acceptance as may feel I am of theirs. Someone who needs someone to love them first.
— Russell Kyle, Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life
In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
An understanding of our position in Christ gives us security
— Sunday Adelaja
Imagine a true master of the art, someone with complete skill in every aspect of Jiu Jitsu. This master would not force anything. He would simply allow the roll to take whatever form it does, and in every position would act in the most efficient way based off what the circumstance dictates, and not what he himself prefers.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
If we do not judge flow of life by the limited human understanding, we will flow through life calmly and effortlessly.
— Aditya Ajmera
Wisdom gives you the understanding of how to live without being dependent oncircumstances in this life.
— Sunday Adelaja
Wisdom gives us the understanding that God has given us commandments for our benefit.
— Sunday Adelaja
Dark Energy is poorly understood and it is clear that we are currently moving into exploring thecomplete electromagnetic spectrum that also includes the study of atmospheric pressure waves,atmospheric voltage effects on the cellular system, and the biological effects of the various forms ofatmospheric radiation transmission.
— Steven Magee
Choice and perception are closely linked. They are unique, personal and emotional.
— Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
It appears, at least from my perspective, that each and every position in Jiu Jitsu regardless of the seeming complexity is really governed by no more than a handful of minimum viable products. Pursue to understand these essentials, and you will see that complexity is a myth perpetuated by lack of understanding, and it is this understanding which is possible for each of us.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Does it, does it—I'm flailing here—does it have a name? What you've
— Jess Row
Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists. We know each other approximately, by external signs, and these serve well enough as a basis for society and even for intimacy. But people in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed. And this is why they often seem more definite than characters in history, or even our own friends; we have been told all about them that can be told; even if they are imperfect or unreal they do not contain any secrets, whereas our friends do and must, mutual secrecy being one of the conditions of life upon this globe.
— E.M. Forster
I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.
— Saul Bellow
It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Do not try to understand love, rather, stand in love and observe what happens around you.
— Nityananda Das, Divine Union
... sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving...
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
I'm the man that'll make your nights shine bright like day light.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Acting on our interests refines our understanding of what we are good at and what we value. The experiences we have along the way sometimes introduce us to new values that enhance and enlarge our vision. The lessons we learn through habits of action test our understanding and teach us to identify what matters in our life.
— Marian Deegan, Relevance: Matter More
The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.
— Elizabeth George, One-Minute Inspirations for Women
The term I despise most is motivation. Motivation is an unreliable tease and isn't worth your time. Motivation is fleeting, DISCIPLINE is reliable. Cultivate DISCIPLINE and FORCE yourself to do things to better yourself. It isn't about keeping yourself motivated, it's about how to train yourself to work without it.
— Mustafa Said
Hence, you see your faith, you see your doubt, you see your desire and will to learn, and when you are induced by divine authority to believe what you do not see, you see at one that you believe these things; you analyze and discern all this.
— Augustine of Hippo
Clarity is like casting light. Clarity allows us to see better and eases the path of understanding. And just as one light source need not deny the illumination of another but can add to it, the understanding gained through one explanation can stand to gain from another, even if it is different in approach. The truth is more exclusive...
— Cyrus Panjvani, Buddhism: A Philosophical Approach
..i spill intothe kind of silenceonly Khalil Gibran would understand.
— Sanober  Khan, Turquoise Silence
She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself
—  the silly ones could never understand her wisdom
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
One must find rhythms others’ ears don’t hear.
— David Anthony Durham, Acacia: The War with the Mein
Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom
We are all different. God made us that way. Drawing a line in the sand due to that is indeed unfortunate.
— Jill Telford
Men all pay homage to what understanding understands, but no one understands enough to rely upon what understanding does not understand and thereby come to understand.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Alex got angry at me because he said I didn’t understand how hard it was. And you know what? He was right. I didn’t understand. Not then.
— Andrew Klavan, The Last Thing I Remember
I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.
— Carla H. Krueger
In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Mockery ends where understanding begins.
— Erich von Däniken, The Return of the Gods: Evidence of Extraterrestrial Visitations
True wisdom comes in understanding that sometimes, you are both the prison and the key.
— Johnathan Jena
Relationships & personal Interactions are like having food...if it doesn't taste well, we can't eat it, no matter how beautiful it looks ~
— Rajneesh Shrma
I fear that one day I will no longer understand desperation, and with that, I will slowly stop listening to what others have to say.
— Courtney Milan, Unraveled
I ain't got no Visa, I ain't got no Red American Express, We can't go nowhere exotic, It don't matter 'cause I'm decent and Loyal.
— Genereux Philip
A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.
— Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist
You can't expect someone to understand your journey, when they've hardly lived one of their own.
— Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman
The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you “make” the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.
— Shannon L. Alder
In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.
— Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural
Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest
خفض صوتك الى مستوى افكاريLower your voice
—  to reach my thinking level.
One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still everyone, inevitably, has a viral opinion (judgment) about everything and everyone, but little skill in good judgment as its verification or harness.
— Criss Jami, Healology
It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.
— Aristotle
Falling in love... how could he have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going. It was the central thing, the way you understood yourself.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
There's a logical reason for everything in the universe even if we cannot comprehend, understand, or express that reason.
— Jared Alexander
You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to be prepared to change your mind if someone is at hand to put you right and guide you away from some groundless opinion.
— Marcus Aurelius
Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
1887A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.
— Jessie Burton
I had to open my eyes, so I could see a new life!
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.
— Auliq Ice
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
The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and our future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.
— Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
People think "monsters" are born without origin. But it is the monsters that have the greatest stories to tell...
— Charles   Lee, The Way To Dawn: End of Days
Certain things are extremely difficult to understand, such as the concept of unconditional love, perhaps it is due to mislead thoughts about God’s love for us. Assuming that we can say or do certain things and suddenly lose this love and approval. But I when I picture God I picture him standing with his arms out saying, "Beth stop punishing yourself." And he says it like my dad used to say, with such great authority and assurance in his voice that I can't help but smile, and know it's gonna be ok.
— Bethany Brookbank, Write like no one is reading
It doesn't mean,' she shrugged. 'It just is
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
I think it was a sense of being completely swallowed up by nature that gave the prairie its powerful attraction.There is nothing like it in all of Europe. Even high up on a Swiss glacier one is still conscious of the toy villages below, the carefully groomed landscape of multicolored fields,the faraway ringing of a church bell. It is all very beautiful, but it does not convey the utmost escape. I believe, with the Indians, that a landscape influences and forms the people living on it and that one cannot understand them and make friends with them without also understanding, and making friends with, the earth from which they came.
— Richard Erdoes
We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
— Abigail Adams
Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love.
— Auliq Ice
A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them.
— Daniel Suarez, Influx
Most people use less brains in selecting the person with whom they are to spend their lives than they do in choosing an automobile, a bicycle or a cut of steak. Love isn’t enough; there must also be understanding.
— Elsie Lincoln Benedict
Cognition begins with sensation.
— Richard Tarnas
The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.
— Edwin Muir
if only you could see through my eyes at the life that I've lived and if only you could think through my thoughts & hear every word that was said and seen and how it made me feel as all of those words were forced down my ears and stabbed in my chest were my heart used to be.. then and only then would you know why I hide myself so deep in the dark parts of the abyss that became my home and its the place where I can go where my heart is safe from a world that didn't care if my feelings were hurt or if they loved me for what I'm not or tried to kill me for not being their carbon copy illusion of what they thought was normal and if only you walked along side of me through it all then you would understand my choices & not hate my mistakes.
— John Speigle
She was lost in her longing to understand.
— Gabriel García Márquez
She’s an absolute idiot!” she added with the wisdom invariably shown by people who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.
— Marcel Proust
Far too many people allow broken egos and wounded prides to convince them to seek justice before they seek understanding.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.
— Ben Okri
The artist is often misunderstood because, stepping outside himself and holding most details in great tension, he's about as complex as a shape-shifter; or a head with faces on all sides, but not necessarily in the negative connotation as one being two-faced usually implies. For instance, to be misunderstood can mean to be improperly deemed a troublemaker when that is not one's true intent: you see, to troublemakers, the artist knows that the peacemaker may seem like a troublemaker; therefore he may, whether in honesty or in jest, at times, present himself as a troublemaker for perceptual, artistic flair. But then to the artless peacemakers, because of this they will interpret him as a troublemaker. This is why the artist has so few allies. To the troublemakers he's a troublemaker, yet still the peacemakers a troublemaker.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect.
— Astronaut Ron Garan
At the limit it could be said that every speaking being has a personal language of his own, that is his own particular way of thinking and feeling. Culture, at its various levels, unifies in a series of strata, to the extent that they come into contact with each other, a greater or lesser number of individuals who understand each other's mode of expression to varying degrees, etc.
— Antonio Gramsci
On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Your commitment is to action alone, not to the fruits of action. That must never be: you must not be motivated by the fruits of your actions. Yet you must not become attached to inaction. Perform your duties as a warrior and cast off attachment, Arjuna, indifferent alike whether you gain or gain not. This indifference is called yoga. Action is far lower than the rule of understanding, Arjuna. Seek refuge in wisdom. They are unworthy who are moved only by gain. Lesson Two, verses 47-49
— Bhagvad Gita
Those whom we cannot stand are usually those whom we cannot understand.
— P.K. Shaw
Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things
I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.
— Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth
Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.
— Raheel Farooq
A word is like a finger pointing at different things. Do not look at the finger
—  focus on the essence of the word. Focus on what the finger is pointing at!
It can be a good thing if deeper theology, or philosophy, only makes one more uncertain. It may lead to a healthy doubt; he may throw his hands up saying, 'God, I just don't know anymore. If you're out there, I'm giving it all to you.' From there, after the surrender, he is allowing God himself, rather than theories, books, and documents, to take over and lead him into all truth.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
We can not hear or see everything, but a experience let us understanding it.
— Jan Jansen
Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.
— John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
There might not be a lot of people who can understand you and the way you think, don’t lose your temper and don’t get sad, because you are destined to mark a new path.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
Would you like the rhythm of your heart to be calm?Would you like the music of your soul towards harmony and fulfillment?Deal with any conflict constructively to reduce stress, tension and other unwanted collateral effects. Sharing you strategies on how to deal with a conflict:- take care of yourself and know well yourself- clarify what personal needs threatened by the conflict- identify a safe place and appropriate time for negotiation- seek first to understand than be understood, listening skills is very important.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
It is a joy to share good advice. It takes a grateful ear to listen wisely. It's always up for us to take the right action and fulfilling path that can truly serve for what is the best.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.
— Raheel Farooq
I consoled myself with Granddaddy's words on the fossil record and the Book of Genesis: It was more important to understand something than to like it. Liking wasn't necessary for understanding. Liking didn't enter into it.
— Kelly Jacqueline
One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves.
— Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy ('love of wisdom') is simply a tool depending on how one uses it, and in some cases, logically understanding the nature of God and existence.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
You can not rise above your understanding, yet our understanding largely stems from the quality and quantity of knowledge we have been privileged to acquire.
— Paul Bamikole
People fear what they do not understand.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp it in her own understanding. Her active living was suspended, but underneath, in the darkness, something was coming to pass. If only she could break through the last integuments!
— D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on eath. Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will percieve the divine mystery in things. Once you percieve it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
— Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts
Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there.
— Michael Bassey Johnson