Understanding Oneself And Others Quotes - Page 2

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

Stewart Stafford

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

All hate is hurt, all compassion is understanding

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Understanding breeds empathy.

Christopher Paolini

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Theodore Roethke

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

Orson Scott Card