Understanding Others Quotes

People are far more revealing by the questions they ask than the answer they give. To get closer to understanding what is really on someone’s mind, answer their questions briefly so they ask follow-up questions. By their third question you’ll get a glimpse of their biggest fear or desire on the topic.

Kare Anderson

If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window!

Mehmet Murat ildan

We look at other people's lives, & we see what looks like a beautiful, adventurous, wonderful or tragic life. But so seldom do we see or even understand that what we see isn't their lives. Especially nowadays with news feeds, & statuses, we see only the surface, with not hint at the inner workings.To me, it's like a movie. We see the culmination of ones efforts, work, hardships, difficulties, progress, & pains. On a big screen that is life, but so rare & seldom, do we every acknowledge nor see the directorial point of view. The metaphorical behind the screens.So while we view others lives with a romantic envy, sweet longing, disheartened sympathy, or joyous reverence. We are so oblivious to the fact that their lives take the same trials, hardships, wonders, difficulties, & joys as we, it's merely manifested in a different on screen production. My longing, is to see that which is off screen. The inner workings, mundane & trivial, as well as the intense & breathtaking because without it, the picture it culminated in would not be.If we only take things at face value, we'll miss the wonders of the inner working. That which lies beyond sight, hidden away within. While it is what appears without that we all see, that which lies within makes what we see make sense.And it's in understanding someone's life & situation, that you can come to value their life & them.

Trevor Driggers

When you know how to handle people, handle people well, for you may need people one day! Don’t just shun them; don’t kill them! Don’t curse them; don’t harm them! Pray for them, for they are a good part of the story, both for the good and for the bad; get understanding, and disarm the armed who seems to be a threat with wit and wisdom! Life is not a one day journey, so be careful!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If I tell you I am upset about everything that's going on around me, you will probably ask me why, half listening, half wandering away in your own train of thoughts...If I tell you I am happy, you will probably not bother to know why, congratulating me and forgetting..I should rather tell you I am fine, satisfied, you will probably tell me your own issues then, for which I will be all ears

Sanhita Baruah

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Harper Lee

If life were perfect, we would never learn anything. Thus, never appreciate life.

Zarina Bibi

I just want to understand how people misunderstand each other!

Ramana Pemmaraju

We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purposes, helps us not at all to thread the labyrinth each individual presents in his involution of feelings, desires and capacities; and we must resemble, in quickness of feeling, instinctive sympathy, and warm benevolence, the lovely daughter of Huntley, before we can hope to judge rightly of the good and virtuous of our fellow-creatures.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

No one understands betrayal like the one who has been betrayed.

Ken Poirot

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

Tennessee Williams

There was always something to learn from listening to and understanding people´s viewpoints.

Michelle Madow

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We always look for everything in the immediate proximity, that is a mistake.

Thomas Bernhard

Your Temporary Santa, "He says presents aren't important, but I think they are- not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say 'I understand you.

David Levithan

It's a persons ego that leads them away. So I should say, let your mind be open to those things that affects your ego. Learn how to accept your mistakes and learn how to understand mistakes of others.

Jayson Engay

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

Sarah Dessen

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. And while I occasionally step over the line and into the world of the melodramatic, it is what I must do in order to communicate clearly and effectively. In order to make my point understood without question.

Garth Stein

What is the point of relaying every word when the words become the crime of friendship.

Lorin Morgan-Richards

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Samuel Johnson

The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.

Eraldo Banovac

Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.

Bilal Tanweer

It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused

Amit Abraham

On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.

John Green

Hatred is prevalent on this earth because it requires no real effort, unlike the investment it takes to genuinely understand a person.

Richelle E. Goodrich

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

Orson Scott Card

the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us...

Barack Obama

Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues.

Jay Woodman

Things always appear clear and simple from behind glass. It is in the thick of tribulations that blurring details arise, complicating my life. You can't rightly judge me, nor can you assist, from a shielded viewpoint.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love.

Auliq-Ice

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

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers

Steven Magee

I think we understand each other a little better, and that's never a bad thing.

Abigail Hilton

The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

She seems to always get itTo have become adept at empathyAlways giving excuses for people who’ve aggrieved herTo the point it’s hard for her to hit back when necessary All because she assumes she ‘understands’Then, one day . . .She finally stands up for herselfAt that moment, she revels in the natural instinct of self-preservationShe realises all this while the power she’s been withholdingIn a transcendent moment of epiphanyIt’s all beautiful ‘causeNow, she can get back to empathy with understanding, rather, than without.

Ufuoma Apoki

Just because I understand does not mean I agree.

Carlos Wallace

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

When someone is hurt andwe hear ourselves saying"I don't understand, why"PAUSEAt the pause, ask "What am I missing here ?"At the pause, stop judging, stop reacting,get curious and believe their hurt stateAt the pause, tap into their heart and mind.Now see how this pause transforms the conversation.

Wordions

Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.

Richelle E. Goodrich

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus' secret was His ability to see into people's hearts. Seeing their anguish and pain helped Him to understand their nastiness. So He could pity them rather than become angry with them. That is what we have to do: try to understand the pain in people's lives...and not take personally what they do to us.

Joseph F. Girzone

...I still cannot tap on your walls and discover by the hollow or firm sounds which of your walls are merely decorative, and which ones hold everything up.

Philip J. Hilts

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. God bless those who see beyond our flaws painted in bold strokes.

Nike Thaddeus

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Emma Goldman

Love endures every circumstance; Love never loses hope, never loses faith and never gives up.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Understanding someone, is the sign of True Maturity,Forgiving them is that of True Wisdom.

Drishti Bablani

Continuous understanding goes with love, courage, respect, discovery and acceptance of mistakes.

Auliq-Ice

if people do not understand you outrightly, do not worry; understand people outrightly and act with wisdom, courage and understanding

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There's more than what the eye can see, the heart can love, and the brain can understand.

Louise Philippe Dulay

May we love each other with brotherly love. Love cast out all fears.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When we understand people; when we understand situations;when we understand what matters;when we understand the why’s, the what’s and the how’s;when we understand the trigger of actions, we least inflict pain on ourselves and unto others.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If only you would understand the silent speech and the real pain within the innermost man of they that suffer in silence, you would never keep silent to their suffering. So many people can’t speak everything about how they are suffering for the sake of dignity and confidentiality. Though they smile, they smile out of a deep pain within. When you look at someone suffering, just see how he is suffering and in so far as you can, be the joy to the innermost man of the person to the best of your ability. Don’t wait for his words, just look and see!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Let’s make the world brighter for that is all we need to be better! If I am bright and you are bright then the world will be brighterIf I am dark and you are dark then the world will be darkerLet’s make the world brighter for brightness is all we need to be better!Let’s make the world relevant for that is all we need to be relevantIf I am relevant and you are relevant then we shall all be relevantIf I am irrelevant and you are relevant then I will disturb your relevanceLet’s make the world relevant for that is the epitome of life!Let’s make the world faithful for faithfulness is all we need to be faithful!If I am faithful and you are faithful then the world will be faithfulIf I am unfaithful and you are faithful then I will disturb your faithfulnessLet’s make the world faithful for faithfulness is the fountain of peace

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will enrich the world. It’s is your ability and willingness to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, serve and support the lives of others that will.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturity and understanding, where you do something which makes you stand out of crowd.

Amit Ray

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