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Understanding brings control.
Bonewitz
It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
Paulo Coelho
The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S Truman
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
Jane Austen
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Albert Einstein
I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
BetweenOur birth and death we may touch understandingAs a moth brushes a window with its wing.
Christopher Fry, The Boy with a
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Plato
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Gustav Jung
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Jean Rostand
No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
V. I. Klassen
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
Thomas Carlyle
Two parts of empathy: Skill (tip of iceberg) and Attitude (mass of the iceberg).
Source Unknown
Said the little boy, Sometimes I drop my spoon.Said the little old man, I do that too.The little boy whispered, I wet my pants.I do too, laughed the old man.Said the little boy, I often cry.The old man nodded. So do I.But worst of all, said the boy, it seemsGrown-ups don't pay attention to me.And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.I know what you mean, said the little old man.
Shel Silverstein, The Little Boy
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
Andre Gide
Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
