Top Understanding Quotes

A conversation in which the two parties have different beliefs should never begin with the intention of converting the other party to your own beliefs. Every worthwhile conversation's goal should be t...

My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with wha...

Understanding Definition

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Understand

(a.) Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

(n.) The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.

(n.) An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.

(n.) The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.

(n.) Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.

Empathize with others. You may easily get into a situation where you need the understanding of others.

Just cuz you get to the end doesn’t mean you know what happened.

Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite of the false messages running through your mind.

those who get upset for being treated the way that they treat others, will never understand why others treat them the way that they treat others.

It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading.

...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals...

Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.

It is far kinder and smarter to show someone a better path in life than to darkly follow down their's with the self-righteous belief that you do so with the purer intentions of justly punishing them f...

Listening with the focus of actually understanding what the other person is trying to communicate is priceless, a talent that everyone possesses but not something that is practiced enough.

There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept you. The other is as though loving and accepting another person is all that matters. Often, whe...

In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize....

I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside.I don’t believe I exist behind myself.

Understand the flaws and you will know the perfection of the Universe.

Grace is all that God is free to do for you, in you, with you and through you only because of the finished work of Jesus Christ.

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding