Quotes About Understanding

Self-awareness cant be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we are.

To be the best you can be, is to know the person in the mirror better than you think you know everyone else.

Don't let yourself get so angry that you stop loving, because one day you will wake up from that anger and that person you love won't be around anymore.

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.

Never frown upon something just because you do not understand it. Your viewpoint will not always be the right one...

To handle yourself, use your head, To handle others, use your heart.

You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Education teaches the basics of knowledge while learning develops their understanding and use.

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

I accept that I can't help everybody, I can't please everyone either. I'm not perfect; but I know one thing for sure! I'm a work in progress, a student in class and a man that is willing to learn from his mistakes. So that I can have a better understanding in life.

When you truly feel comfortable with your own imperfections, you wont feel threatened or offended by the imperfections you see in other people.

Experience will help you differentiate what's Right and what's Wrong. And will help you prevent committing mistakes.

Life is hard when you think everything is about you. The truth is, no matter who you are, it's not always about you.

If you wish to be more influential, spend more time being interested than you do trying to be interesting.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.

Happiness is a feeling of well-being derived from knowing ourselves.

We only know ourselves. But since we are all alike to some degree we can know all others.

It is more useful to be aware of a single weakness in oneself than to be aware of a thousand weaknesses in someone else.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Insight doesn't just come naturally; it comes from an accumulation of knowledge and experiences.

There is a big difference between what you know and what you think you know, learn the facts before jumping to conclusions.

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.