Browsing Topic Best Understanding Quotes

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone’s help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man’s observation, not overturning it.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

One of the hardest obstacles I’ve had to overcome in my life was not understanding how to draw healthy boundaries. I finally learned it’s perfectly OK to say no.

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness. Third should come understanding. Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.

True Wisdom comes from understanding, not memorization.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it’s forgiving yourself of what you don’t have, and appreciating all of it.

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.