107 Quotes About Understanding-oneself-and-others

We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

It is worthwhile studying other peoples, because every understanding of another culture is an experiment with our own.

Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you’re pointing a finger at.

The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.

You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally - as a human being

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze

One very beautiful virtue one can master is to learn to ignore; to ignore perceived and intended slights no matter how infuriating they might feel. Not to ignore in anger, rather, to ignore with understanding. However, to keep account for future purposes, to ignore with adept skill and less hurt. Life just becomes easier and more beautiful.

the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us...