107 Quotes About Understanding-oneself-and-others

When we know what we most fear, we know what we most care about.

I am responsible for what I have said, I am not responsible for what you have not understood

The only person who can fully understand me is myself.

Understanding our personalities makes it significantly easier to change the things within our grasp. This is whole point of studying various frameworks! Some people resist personality frameworks because they say such frameworks put them in a box. I’ve found that understanding my personality helps me step out of the box I’m trapped in. When I understand myself, I can get out of my own way.

My personality traits don’t determine my destiny, they inform it.

Pelorat sighed. 'I will never understand people.''There's nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

Students who plainly do not know what the author is saying seem to have no hesitation in setting themselves up as his judges. They not only disagree with something they do not understand but, what is equally bad, they also often agree to a position they cannot express intelligibly in their own words.