Understanding Quotes

"I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

Richard Feynman

"The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged out of various authors, but in opening up their understanding to the outer world."

John Amos Comenius

"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another."

Alfred Adler

"We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love."

Madame de Staël

"Everything I know, I know because of love."

Leo Tolstoy

"Those who do not weep, do not see."

Victor Hugo

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."

Stephen Hawking

"Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."

Henri Poincaré

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

Albert Einstein

"Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen."

Orhan Pamuk

"It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?"

Eleanor H. Porter

"The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it."

William H. Whyte

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood."

Ralph Nichols

"To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."

Henry Boye

"Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."

Leo Tolstoy

"We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."

Stephen Covey

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

Harper Lee

"The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world."

Bill Bullard

"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another."

Alfred Adler

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow