Understanding quotes
Understanding quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Also about
Great, Violence, Peace
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.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Understanding quotes by Francois Voltaire
Also about
Language, Spirit, Philosophy, Communication
Understanding quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
Also about
Admiration
Understanding quotes by Stephen Hawking
Also about
Power, Universe, Control, Knowledge
Understanding quotes by Albert Camus
Also about
Ignorance, Suffering
Understanding quotes by Stephen Covey
Also about
Communication
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying.
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
We don't have any option. We are dependent on these mullahs to learn the Quran," he said. "But you just use him to learn the literal meaning of the words; don't follow his explanations and interpretation. Only learn what God says. His words are divine messages, which you are free and independent to interpret.
Malala Yousafzai
(also about
Religion, Islam)
Understanding quotes by Charles Darwin
Also about
Natural selection, Ignorance, Learning, Change
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.
We are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps.
Understanding quotes by Nikola Tesla
Also about
Egoism, Society, Peace, Communication, Consensus
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...
Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term. Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields. The peril of a clash is aggravated by a more or less predominant sense of combativeness, posed by every human being. To resist this inherent fighting tendency the best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse.
Understanding quotes by Paulo Coelho
Also about
Civilization, Culture, Universe, World, Learning
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.
You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
Understanding quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
Also about
Love, Relationships, Men & Women, Women, Mutuality
Educationalists who think they can understand the young are enthusiasts. Youth does not want to be understood; it wants only to be let alone. It preserves itself immune against the insidious bacillus of being understood. The grown-up who would approach it too importunately is as ridiculous in its eyes as if he had put on children's clothes. We may feel with our youth, but youth does not feel with us. That is its salvation.
Erich Maria Remarque
(also about
Youth, Adults)
Understanding quotes by Richard Branson
Also about
Inspiration, Problems, Listening, Advice
Understanding quotes by Alan Milne
Also about
Relationships, Patience, Listening, Humour, Intelligence, Brain
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything".
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything".
Understanding quotes by David Lynch
Also about
Cinema, Feelings, Hollywood, Stories
A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.
In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.
Understanding quotes by Frederick the Great
Also about
Religion, Science, Mathematics, Physics
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity;
I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners;
but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of Nothing.
I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners;
but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of Nothing.
Understanding quotes by Felix Mendelssohn
Also about
Ambiguity, Feelings, Words
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
Even if, in one or other of them, I had a particular word or words in mind, I would not tell anyone, because the same word means different things to different people. Only the songs say the same thing, arouse the same feeling, in everyone - a feeling that can't be expressed in words.
Understanding quotes by Brian Greene
Also about
Confidence, Search, Theory, Experiment, Confusion, Science, Mathematics, Animals, Cats, Mankind
I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.
In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.
We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?
Understanding quotes by Leo Tolstoy
Also about
Love, Art, Feelings, Self-Expression
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real.
And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot.
There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help. Charles Bukowski
And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot.
There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help. Charles Bukowski
(also about
Help, Compassion, Pain)
Understanding quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Also about
Nature, Symbolism, Words, Confusion, Mankind, Communication, Consensus
Understanding quotes by Franz Kafka
Also about
Language, Communication, Feelings
Understanding quotes by John Steinbeck
Also about
People, Communication, Love, Psychology, Knowledge, Humanism, Philanthropy, Absurd, Devil, Angels
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.
Sylvia Plath
(also about
Personality, Self)
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.
Charlotte Bronte