#understanding

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

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

We should not pretend that we understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling.

The highest form of knowledge is not to imagine that one knows what one does not know.

To know that which you know, and that which you do not know—this is the true nature of understanding.

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

Discipline is not suppression; true discipline is the natural order born of understanding.

The measure of your understanding is your daily behavior.

Do not seek answers; understand the question deeply.

When you understand the root of fear, fear dies.

Understanding is the heart of well-spoken words.

The wise person bridges division with understanding.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

When there is true understanding, debates cease like melting snow.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without a rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet not sink to the bottom.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over.

Understanding someone's suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love's other name.

You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person.

Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.

If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.