Understanding Quotes

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"An enemy is one whose story we have not heard."

Gene Knudsen Hoffman

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."

“Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.”

“A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.”

“Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.”

“Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings. Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view.”

“Mutual understanding would be immensely facilitated by the use of one universal tongue.”

“To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.”

“To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.”

“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

“The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.”

“You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.”

“People are used to music that justifies street culture, but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.”

“You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.”

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

“I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”

“Understanding is a two-way street.”

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”