176 Quotes About Understanding-others

I have sincerely tried not to deride the action of men, not to lament nor to abhor them. I have done all in my might to understand them.- Spinoza

If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus' secret was His ability to see into people's hearts. Seeing their anguish and pain helped Him to understand their nastiness. So He could pity them rather than become angry with them. That is what we have to do: try to understand the pain in people's lives...and not take personally what they do to us.

Don't blame—seek to understand.

Labels don’t achieve anything except make us feel more separated.

To Make a Difference, Understand Differences.

In order to achieve perfection, we must first of all fail to understand a great many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand very well.

The secret of successful relationships is found in an understanding heart, preferably your own.

Unknown Indigenous people don’t receive any help, they vanish as silently as they have lived.

We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purposes, helps us not at all to thread the labyrinth each individual presents in his involution of feelings, desires and capacities; and we must resemble, in quickness of feeling, instinctive sympathy, and warm benevolence, the lovely daughter of Huntley, before we can hope to judge rightly of the good and virtuous of our fellow-creatures.