• I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better. – Abraham Lincoln

 

• If you want understanding try giving some. – Malcolm Forbes

 

• If you wish to please people, you must begin by understanding them. – Charles Reade

 

• He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened. – Lao Tzu

 

• It’s not at all hard to understand a person; it’s only hard to listen without bias. – Criss Jami

 

• Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these. – Lloyd Shearer

 

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

 

• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. – Henri Bergson

 

• Walk with me for a while, my friend, you in my shoes, I in yours, and then let us talk. – Richelle E Goodrich
• Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort. – Roy T. Bennett

 

• Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand. – Lakhdar Brahimi

 

• Those who judge will never understand, and those who understand will never judge. – Unknown

 

• If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. – John Steinbeck

 

• Understanding is a two-way street. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

• Treat people with understanding when you can and fake it when you can’t until you do understand. – Kim Harrison

 

• It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made. – Henry Ward Beecher

 

• Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength. – Lao Tzu

 

• Respect requires empathy, the capacity to anticipate and understand the feelings of others. It requires consideration. – Deborah Norville

 

• There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge. – Ayn Rand

 

• We are all unique. Don’t judge, understand instead. – Roy T. Bennett

 

• When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations. – Lawrence Hill

 

• A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings in order to acquire a proper relationship to individual fellow-men and to the community. – Albert Einstein

 

• What better way is there no make men love one another than to make men understand one another. True charity comes only with clarity-just as mercy is but justice that understands. Surely the root of all evil is the inability to see clearly that which is. – Will Durant

 

• Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself. – Andre Gide

 

• Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. – Dalai Lama

 

• Seek first to understand and then to be understood. – Stephen R. Covey

 

• Person A understand Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A. – Haruki Murakami

 

• 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

 

• To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty. ? Napoleon Bonaparte

 

• The superior person understands rightness; the inferior person understands profit. – Confucius

 

• It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences. – Harry S. Truman

 

• 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

 

• Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these. – Lloyd Shearer

 

• Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. – Emma Goldman

 

• If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. – Carl Jung

 

• Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. – G.I. Gurdjieff