Seek first to understand and then to be understood. (Quote by - Stephen R. Covey)

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them. (Quote by - Vernon Howard)

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. (Quote by - Franz Kafka )

Contentment is accepting the world as an imperfect place. (Quote by - Anon xx)

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. (Quote by - Herman Melville 1819)

It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere. (Quote by - Charles The Bold)

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. (Quote by - Galileo Galilei)

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. (Quote by - Kurt Lewin )

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. (Quote by - Aristotle)

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. (Quote by - Claude Monet)

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things. (Quote by - Joe Chung)

Again a different meaning has to be understood. (Quote by - Buddha)

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. (Quote by - John Locke)

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide." (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself. (Quote by - Princess of Wales Diana)

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams. (Quote by - Princess of Wales Diana)

If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering. (Quote by - Princess of Wales Diana)

The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson )

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. (Quote by - Guy Finley)

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine. (Quote by - J. William Fulbright)

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. (Quote by - Nikki Giovanni)