Top 50 Most Inspiring Quotes On Understanding

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Life is too short to let anger and resentment take up space. One of the keys to living a happy life is understanding the people who are a part of it. Well, It’s not easy to achieve. It takes time, patience, humility, and constant practice to develop people’s understanding of their relationships with themselves, others, and the world around them.

The pursuit of understanding is not a selfish endeavor. It is the foundation of authentic relationships. The more we understand ourselves, the more we can empathize with others. When we can empathize with others, that feeling of connection becomes our motivation to understand and live a happy life. Check out these most inspirational quotes that will motivate you to understand to live a happy life.

Top 50 Most Inspiring Quotes On Understanding

“Open-minded people don’t care to be right, they care to understand.” ― Anonymous

“Listening is the beginning of understanding.” ― Anonymous

“It is understanding that gives us the 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

“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.” ― Emma Goldman

“You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.” ― Guy Finley

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” ― Albert Einstein

“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.” ― Helen Keller

“Maturity is not when we start speaking about big things. It is when we start understanding small things.” ― Anonymous

“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

“Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.” ― Malcolm X

“Only if we fought just as hard to understand as we do to disagree.” ― Anonymous

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ― Carl Jung

“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet… maybe we could understand something.” ― Federico Fellini

“Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” ― Aristotle

“Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.” ― Norman Vincent Peale

“To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom.” ― Sid Mendenhall

“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

“There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own.” ― Kobe Bryant

“We are all unique. Don’t judge, understand instead.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.” ― Yo-Yo Ma

“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.” ― Aaron Burr

“Purpose is understanding why you do what you do.” ― Billy Cox

“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.” ― John Steinbeck

“Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.” ― Marge Piercy

“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” ― Elbert Hubbard

“Everyone hears only what he understands.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” ― Anaïs Nin

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” ― Marie Curie

“Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair

“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.” ― Carl Sagan

“The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.” ― Joanna Field

“Understanding brings control.” ― Bonewitz

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” ― Albert Einstein

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” ― Galileo Galilei

“Be patient and understanding.” ― Phillips Brooks

“Those who judge will never understand, and those who understand will never judge.” ― Anonymous

“The heart has reasons which the reason cannot understand.” ― Blaise Pascal

“You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.” ― Publilius Syrus

“If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh

“If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.” ― John Steinbeck

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.” ― Richard Bach

“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.” ― Pearl Buck

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.” ― Euripides

“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” ― Gwendolyn Brooks

“If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.” ― Haruki Murakami

“Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist.” ― Madeleine L’Engle

“If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.” ― Lyndon Johnson

“Seek first to understand and then to be understood.” ― Stephen R. Covey

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.” ― Dale Carnegie

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