14 Inspirational Quotes on Understanding

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

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

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

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

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

Everyone hears only what he understands.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
- Kahlil Gibran

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

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

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
- Confucius

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
- H.H Williams

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

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say.
- Kahlil Gibran

'Turn over a new leaf' -

to make a radical change for the better in one's way of living or doing.

William A. Ward - if you can

'If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.'

Hellen Keller - the best and most beautiful

Buddha - no one saves

'No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.'

Glenn Clark - if you wish to travel

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.”

Bernadette Devlin - to gain that

“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”

Marcus Aurelius - it especially

It especially makes no sense to care what someone thinks of us when that person doesn't even like themselves…then, why do we care what they think of us

rawmonk - I am an open book

I am an open book, transparent, detached, full of stories, intimate, kind, uplifting in the words to myself and those keen to share, I am aware that my ego is not me, by knowing I have an ego I know that I am more…much more than just this flesh and bone…& if this is true - for it is…then, we are part of a greater purpose than 9-5, mortgages, vitamin tablets & pollution…

Kahlil Gibran - truth is a

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Friedrich Nietzsche - we often refuse

'We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.'

Malcolm X - don't be in a hurry to

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.

David Edwards - hate can only exist

“Hate can only exist in the absence of understanding; where understanding is present, hate cannot exist. … Very often hate is the result of a determination not to understand, and this is why hate is so dangerous: it actually resists understanding.”

Q: What makes a person good or bad?

A: (heartmindspirit) What’s good or bad, or moral or immoral, is highly subjective, this means the actually definition varies from person to person, perception to perception. To me, there is only true or false. Is the person honoring truth in their lives? Are they deceiving for personal advantage? People live lies, and those around them also suffer for it.

Voltaire - animals have these

“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”

Elbert Hubbard - the greatest mistake...

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Gerry Spence - I would rather...

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than closed by belief."

T.S. Elliot - only thoes

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”

Corita Kent- life is

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Henry Adams- chaos...

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.