Understanding

(244 votes)   Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Beca Lewis Allen
American Author of ''ABCs of Life''

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(229 votes)   The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

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(220 votes)   We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(200 votes)   If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(186 votes)   The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(142 votes)   I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

Princess of Wales Diana
1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

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(141 votes)   If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Pearl S. Buck
1892-1973, American Novelist

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(124 votes)   If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.

Princess of Wales Diana
1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

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(117 votes)   We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

Sir James M. Barrie
1860-1937, British Playwright

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(116 votes)   No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(113 votes)   Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.

Leonardo Da Vinci
1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor

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(97 votes)   In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie E. Eschenbach

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(97 votes)   It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Veda Upanishads
c. BC 800-, Hindu Poetic Dialogues On Metaphysics

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(95 votes)   Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(90 votes)   If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

Zen Saying

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