Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming,
understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant,
overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.
- Billy Graham (1918-)
All persons are puzzles until at last we find some word
or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightaway all
their past words and actions lie in light before us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
A man is given the choice between loving women and
understanding them.
- Ninon de Lenclos (1620-1705)
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by
distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This
is the thing to understand.
- Siddha Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 AD)
All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect
understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.
- Hermann Helmholtz
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Between, our birth and death we may touch understanding
As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
- Christopher Fry (1907-)
A child of five would understand this. Send somebody to fetch a
child of five.
- Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
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