• A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.~ Vernon Howard
• A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.~ Henry James
• A mother understands what a child does not say.~ Jewish Proverb
• A wise man hears one word and understands two.~ Yiddish Proverb
• Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.~ Emma Goldman
• Criticism is a misconception. We must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.~ E. M. Cioran
• Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.~ Count Leo Tolstoy
• Folks never understand the folks they hate.~ James Russell Lowell
• If I cannot understand my friend’s silence, I will never get to understand his words.~ John Enoch Powell
• I don’t understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones. ~ Richard Deupree
• If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding.~ Yiddish Proverb
• If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.~ Carl Jung
• If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.~ Zen Saying
• If you want to understand men, study women.~ French Proverb
• If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.~ Pearl S. Buck
• If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.~ Kurt Lewin
• I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.~ Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
• I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.~ Chinese Proverb
• In youth we learn; in age we understand.~ Marie E. Eschenbach
• I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.~ Jean Rostand
• It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.~ Rene Coty
• It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.~ Anatole France
• It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.~ Veda Upanishads
• I understand people’s suffering, people’s pain, more than you will every know yourself.~ Princess Diana
• Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.~ Homer Simpson
• Know well that a hundred holy temples of wood and stone have not the value of one understanding heart.~ Zoroaster
• Love understands all languages.~ Romanian Proverb
• Man knows much more than he understands.~ Alfred Adler
• Seek first to understand and then to be understood.~ Stephen R. Covey
• Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.~ St. Augustine
• Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.~ Leszczynski Stanislaus
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.~ German Proverb
• The best candle is understanding.~ Welsh Proverb
• The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.~ Thomas a Kempis
• The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself~ Understanding Quotes
• The man of understanding finds everything laughable.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.~ Leonardo Da Vinci
• To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.~ John Stuart Mill
• The world cannot always understand one’s profession of faith, but it can understand service.~ Ian MacLaren
• There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.~ Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
• There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.~ Charles F. Kettering
• They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.~ Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
• To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.~ John Stuart Mill
• Understanding does not necessarily mean agreement.~ Understanding Quotes
• Understanding is a two-way street.~ Eleanor Roosevelt
• We admire what we do not understand.~ Indian Proverb
• We are slaves to whatever we don’t understand~ Vernon Howard
• We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.~ Adlai E. Stevenson
• We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.~ Anna Jameson
• We should strive to understand the weakness of others.~ Ellen Gould
• Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.~ Carlos Fuentes
• What we do not understand, we cannot control.~ Charles Reich
• When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow men.~ Norvin McGranahan
• You eat an egg, but you don’t understand how painful it was for the chicken.~ Netherlands Antillean Proverb
• You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.~ Harper Lee

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