Quotes About Understanding

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

It is wisdom to know others; It is enlightenment to know one's self.

The high peak of knowledge is perfect self-knowledge.

I make myself so easy to love....

Humor explained is humor denied

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride

The truth shall make you free.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

What I've learned is that preaching at someone is a one-way convo leaving one side feeling self righteous & the other side misunderstood.

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.

You can only defend your position when you truly know where you stand.

In order to understand others, you must understand yourself first.

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.

Finding a peace within yourself is not condoning your actions but learning from your reaction.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.