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When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him. Euripides Understanding 951
Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed rather at not being understanding. Chinese Proverb Understanding 512
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. John Locke Understanding 342
To understand and to be understood makes our happiness on earth. German Proverb Understanding 293
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed -- That can make life a garden. Johann von Goethe Understanding 282
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. Samuel Butler Understanding 275
In order to move on you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it. Mitch Albom Understanding 183
It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. Anatole France Understanding 164
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. Dalai Lama XIV Understanding 152
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe, that thou mayest understand. Saint Augustine of Hippo Understanding 146
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another. Emma Goldman Understanding 141
It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand. Veda Upanishads Understanding 137
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. H. H. Williams Understanding 137
To be understood is to prostitute oneself Fernando Pessoa Understanding 134
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza Understanding 128
The world only goes round by misunderstanding. Charles Baudelaire Understanding 121
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. Charles Franklin Kettering Understanding 119
Seek first to understand and then to be understood. Stephen Covey Understanding 117
Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. Thich Nhat Hanh Understanding 116
Martyrs must choose between being forgotten, mocked or made use of. As for being understood, never! Albert Camus Understanding 114
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will. Martin Luther King, Jr.Understanding 114
I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it. Jodi Picoult Understanding 109
A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. Henry James Understanding 107
The great art of learning is to understand but little at a time. John Locke Understanding 107
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer nothing is more difficult than to understand him. Fyodor Dostoevsky Understanding 106
One day may we all meet together in the light of understanding. Malcolm X Understanding 105
Erklren heit verzeihen erklrt zu werden heit Verzeihung erlangen ... J.M. Coetzee Understanding 104
The ways to knowledge are multitudinous-the way to understanding is devious. Charles B. Rogers Understanding 103
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. William Blake Understanding 103
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it. Ludwig Wittgenstein Understanding 103
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. Leonardo DaVinci Understanding 101
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. Kurt Lewin Understanding 100
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. Norman Vincent Peale Understanding 99
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings. William Blake Understanding 98
I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times. Elizabeth Berg Understanding 98
Understanding is not absolutely final. Whats now right could be wrong later. Toba Beta Understanding 98
Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar Oromis Christopher Paolini Understanding 98
Understanding is a two-way street. Eleanor Roosevelt Understanding 97
My dear how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding Shirley Jackson Understanding 97
The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs. Immanuel Kant Understanding 97
I know no evil so great as the abuse of the understanding, and yet there is no one vice more common. Richard Steele Understanding 96
Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Stephen R. Covey Understanding 96
If love is blind then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it. Criss Jami Understanding 96
Yearn to understand first and to be understood second. Beca Lewis Understanding 95
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. Carl Gustav Jung Understanding 95
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. Alain de Botton Understanding 94
Whatever I experienced in the world that I didnt understand Id invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story. Lisa Alther Understanding 94
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. Pearl Buck Understanding 93
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused. Walter F. Mondale Understanding 91
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. Lao Tzu Understanding 91

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