Understanding QuotesUnderstanding quotes offer many gifts. They speak of understanding which can bring peace, knowledge and joy. Confucius gives us insight into understanding with these words, “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”Read more... Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand. Neil Armstrong To understand is to perceive patterns. Isaiah Berlin Whoever wants to understand much must play much. Gottfried Bern To understand everything is to forgive everything. Buddha To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself. Sophy Burnham Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding. Eileen Caddy I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Stephen R. Covey Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Madame Curie The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. Leonardo da Vinci A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with freedom. Bob Dylan Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert Einstein Intuition is more than the accumulation of old information in an instantaneous brain blast. It's the gut feeling, the hunch, or 'knowing' that defies experience or understanding. Jonathan H. Ellerby Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. Ralph Waldo Emerson The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities. Guy Finley 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. Kahlil Gibran Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Kahlil Gibran To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not to what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. Kahlil Gibran If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand, extraordinary things begin to happen. Loretta Gizartis Everyone hears only what one understands. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. Thich Nhat Hanh Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. Carl Jung I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. Helen Keller 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. Krishnamurti I do not at all understand the mystery of grace, only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. Anne Lamott Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew. Ellen J. Langer Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits. Nancy Long Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again. Og Mandino Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. Rollo May Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims…That's the kind of feeling that goes with creativity. That's why I say the courage to create. Creation does not come out of simply what you're born with. That must be united with your courage, both of which cause anxiety, but also great joy. Rollo May A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. Marshall McLuhan Home is not where you live, but where they understand you. Christian Morgenstern Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others. Janette Oke Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectation that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Sara Paddison I am leaving this legacy to all of you…to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace. Rosa Parks As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more. Jules Renard Words do two major things: they provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. Jim Rohn The brain is like a muscle.When it is in use, we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. Carl Sagan O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be understood, as to understand. Saint Francis of Assisi Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. George Santayana If you would judge, understand. Seneca How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold. Alexander Solzhenitsyn The highest endeavor of the ind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. Baruch Spinoza Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be. Charles R. Swindoll Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood. Freeman Teague Jr. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others. Voltaire How you perceive creates what you believe to be true. You see what you are looking for. 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