The world needs more understanding, there is no doubt about that. It is this emotional and cognitive capacity that leads us to empathize with the different situations faced by people around the world, which leads us to establish a feeling of brotherhood and collaboration, leaving aside the ‘differences’ that separate us.
In the following lines you will find a selection of phrases about understanding that help you understand this way of connecting with someone.
11. One gets tired of everything, except understanding. (Publio Virgilio Marón)
Understanding leads us to grow.
12. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vindictive or malicious. (Phillips Brooks)
It is better to have a positive attitude and get along with others.
13. There are songs that save your life. Knowing that someone before felt what you are feeling at that moment, you are no longer alone. (Javier Cámara)
14. Only with the heart can you see clearly. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
You should never judge without knowing.
15. I don’t like that man. I have to get to know him better. (Abraham Lincoln)
A correct attitude to take.
16. A better world is born on the basis of faith and understanding. (Douglas MacArthur)
Through positive actions, the world can be better.
17. Life is the first gift, love the second and understanding the third. (Marge Piercy)
Gifts that we cannot despise.
18. The improvement of understanding has two purposes: first, our own increase in knowledge; secondly, to allow us to deliver that knowledge to others. (John Locke)
The importance of putting understanding into practice.
19. The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. (Leonardo da Vinci)
When we understand something, we acquire a new ability.
20. Only he who is capable of loving everything is capable of understanding everything. (Gregorio Marañón)
There can be no understanding without acceptance.
21. In your relationship with anyone, you lose a lot if you don’t take the time to understand them. (Rob Goldston)
Every relationship needs time for both people to get to know each other.
22. How much comfort we would find if we told our secrets. (John Churton Collins)
Keeping harmful secrets makes us vulnerable people.
23. He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened. (Lao Tzu)
It is not only about understanding others, but also ourselves.
24. Mediocre minds tend to discard anything that is beyond their understanding. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
This is why ignorance is so dangerous.
25. When you have learned to laugh at the things that need to be laughed at and not at those that shouldn’t, you will have wisdom and understanding. (Lucy Montgomery)
Great advice.
26. Madness is like understanding, you know? You can’t explain it. (Marguerite Duras)
It’s more about emotional intelligence.
27. He who understands does not speak, he who speaks does not understand. (Proverb)
Everything has its time and place.
28. I do not want the peace that passes understanding. I want the understanding that brings peace. (Helen Keller)
The understanding that the world needs.
29. Sadness is caused by intelligence; The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn’t understand them. (Charles Bukowski)
It is necessary to understand the bad to look for the good.
30. To understand everything is to forgive everything. (Lev Tolstoy)
Which leads us to overcome things.
31. If you understand and show that you understand, you can love and the situation will change. (Thich Nhat Hanh)
It’s no use understanding if you won’t put it into practice.
32. Understanding is a two-way street. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
As you give, you receive.
33. When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and give them that understanding back, it’s like you’re giving them emotional oxygen. (Stephen Covey)
The power behind understanding.
34. Conversation enriches understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. (Edward Gibbon)
It never hurts to spend some time alone to get to know each other.
35. “Thank you” is the best sentence anyone could say. A “thank you” expresses gratitude, humility, understanding. (Alice Walker)
It all starts with a gesture of kindness.
36. The woman understands the child better than the man, but the man is more of a child than the woman. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Different understandings.
37. Man is always willing to deny everything he does not understand. (Blaise Pascal)
It is easier to deny something than to make an effort to understand it.
38. When I was young, I believed that love was about understanding; But as I grew older I discovered that no human being understands another. (Graham Greene)
You never understand someone completely, but you can sympathize with their situation.
39. We all have two lives. The second begins when we realize that we only have one. (Confucius)
So take advantage of every moment you have.
40. The eye only sees what the mind is prepared to understand. (Henri Bergson)
It all depends on the way we interpret the world.
41. Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain; but it takes character and self-control to understand and forgive. (Dale Carnegie)
Don’t be a fool.
42. Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only by accepting can you recover. (J.K. Rowling)
The only way to move forward is to accept things.
43. True love is born from understanding. (Buddha)
There can be no love if there is no understanding between the couple.
44. It is better to understand a little than not understand much. (Anatole France)
You are not ignorant if you know something.
45. You have to know, not fear, know that one day you are going to die, and until you understand that, you are useless. (Brad Pitt)
Unknown things stop being intimidating when we understand them.
46. Help me understand what I’m telling you and I will explain it to you better. (Antonio Machado)
An excellent invitation.
47. There are things that cannot be understood except by the heart and that will continue to be an insoluble enigma even for the greatest intelligence. (Dmitri Sergeevich Merejkovsky)
Sometimes it is better to listen to our instincts.
48. By the time reason is able to understand what happened, the wounds in the heart are already too deep. (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
In that case, now you have to work to heal.
49. What you cannot understand, you cannot possess. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
They will be a permanent mystery.
50. All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered, the point is to discover them. (Galileo Galilei)
Everything needs a why.
51. There is nothing heavier than understanding. (Milan Kundera)
It makes us discover positive things and very murky things.
52. Seek first to understand, then to be understood. (Stephen Covey)
One step at a time and you will achieve what you set out to do.
53. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. (Ernest Hemingway)
To understand you need to listen actively.
54. That night, I discovered that many things considered evil or evil… are simply lonely and lacking in social exquisiteness. (Ewan McGregor)
The things we reject are generally misunderstood.
55. To understand the heart and mind of a person, don’t look at what they have done, don’t look at what they have achieved, but at what they aspire to do. (Khalil Gibran)
Don’t cling to the past to get to know a person.
56. I have very reduced that part of my head intended to receive things that are not clear. (Joseph Joubert)
For understanding, it is necessary to have an open mind.
57. Nothing can be more bitter than not being understood. (Henrik Visen)
When we are misunderstood, the feeling of loneliness is born.
58. The only limit to our understanding of tomorrow will be our doubts of the present. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
You may not understand something now, but in time you will.
59. He who does not understand your silence probably does not understand your words. (Elbert Green Hubbard)
Our gestures sometimes speak louder than us.
60. One day, perhaps we will all meet in the light of understanding. (Malcolm X)
An objective that we must not lose sight of.
61. Nothing is stranger than one’s own word having meaning to another. It is extraordinary and it is incomprehensible. (Santiago Kovadloff)
A mystery that leads us to a better relationship with others.
62. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of right understanding. (Mohandas K. Gandhi)
Enemies that cause people to create enmities.
63. With understanding you cannot hate anyone, not even cruel people, but you can help them transform their physical, emotional and social conditions. (Thich Nhat Hanh)
That is why it is important to promote empathy.
64. The important thing, especially while they are young, is to understand before cultivating memory. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
All knowledge requires reasoning and feeling.
65. It is not necessary to wait in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere. (Unknown author)
If you want to understand something, do it on your own.
66. Man knows much more than he understands. (Alfred Adler)
Wisdom is something almost unattainable for many.
67. Seek first to understand and then to be understood. (Stephen R. Covey)
Remember that it is the same precept of giving and receiving.
68. The idiot considers false everything that he is not able to understand. (Saint Thomas of Aquino)
That is why you have to be careful with ignorance.
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69. Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. (Sterling K. Brown)
Many conflicts arise due to our foolishness to be right in everything.
70. Understanding is the beginning of passing. (Baruch Spinoza)
Understanding is the beginning of many actions.
71. You have rarely understood me and I rarely understood you. Only when we found ourselves in the mud did we understand each other immediately. (Heinrich Heine)
It is when we share situations that we manage to empathize.
72. Our species needs and deserves a citizenry with an awake mind and a basic knowledge of how the world works. (Carl Sagan)
The future of humanity depends on our empathy.
73. Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. (George Orwell)
Love can be shown through understanding.
74. Understanding is not absolutely definitive. What’s right now could be wrong later. (Beta Tuff)
Understanding does not mean staying stuck with the same thought.
75. You can’t put the same shoe on each foot. (Publilius Syrus)
Each situation experienced is different for people.
76. Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual appreciation. (Rollo May)
Good communication fosters an excellent relationship in the future.
77. I have diligently tried not to laugh at human actions, nor cry at them, nor abhor them, but to understand them. (Baruch Spinoza)
It is necessary to know how to manage our emotions.
78. Try to understand, you are not a tragic character. (Ernest Hemingway)
What prevents you from sitting down and listening to others?
79. The least we can do, in the service of something, is understand it. (Jose Ortega y Gasset)
The best way to help someone is to understand their situation.
80. Each of us sees ‘green’ differently. Thus, everything is an approximation of understanding. (Nick Bantock)
Our opinions do not matter, but rather that we are able to respect each other.
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81. Human understanding of its own nature is prone to assume the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. (Sir Francis Bacon)
It is necessary to analyze the actions that benefit us and those that do not.
82. Understanding frees the mind, awakens the critical faculty of analysis. It enables them to see the significance of the event, not just to rationalize it. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
The way our minds open.
83. If you are following the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow, you are not understanding yourself. (Bruce Lee)
Traditions are not always good for our growth.
84. Humility is the light of understanding. (John Bunyan)
Being humble leads us to build better relationships.
85. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived looking forward. (Søren Kierkegaard)
Great advice on understanding and moving forward.
86. You don’t find yourself until you face the truth. (Pearl Bailey)
The truth hurts, but it is necessary.
87. Studying the abnormal is the best way to understand the normal. (William James)
We should never fear what we don’t know.
88. Only good friends know how to understand when their presence bothers us. (Noel Clarasó)
A good friend knows how to respect your needs.
89. We disdain or hate ourselves because we do not understand ourselves because we do not take the trouble to study ourselves. (Santiago Ramón y Cajal)
The real reason behind so much global hatred.
90. Great torment to live with those who hate us; It is a greater ordeal to deal with those who do not understand us. (Niceto Alcalá Zamora Y Torres)
Stay away from those who are not capable of respecting you.
