Mutual Understanding Quotes

• Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Wisdom, Peace, Opportunity

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• Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

  Dominique Pire

  Respect, Negative Words, Understanding

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• At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

  Li Peng

  Friendship, Country, Two

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• We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support

  Hjalmar Branting

  Years, Support, Understanding

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• It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

  Bede Griffiths

  Christian, Understanding, Together

  Bede Griffiths (1973). “Vedanta & Christian faith”

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• Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Fighting, Order, Law

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• Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

  Rick Larsen

  Political, Understanding, Engagement

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• Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.

  Nick Lampson

  Ties, Understanding, Taiwan

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• Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.

  Xi Jinping

  Country, Countries Of The World, Effort

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• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  Best Friend, Strong, Cute Friendship

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• Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

  Mary Rakow

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Mary Rakow (2015). “The Memory Room: A Novel”, p.303, Counterpoint

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• Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Suffering, Firsts

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.98, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.

  Alphonse Mucha

  Hope, Bridges, Creating

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• I don't have to agree with everything you say, but I should attempt at least to understand it, for the opposite of mutual understanding is, quite simply, war.

  Ken Wilber

  War, Opposites, Understanding

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• Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

  Anne Truitt

  Love, Relationship, Discovery

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand...They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let's try anyway...

  Bernard Werber

  Believe, Communication, Thinking

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• Have the courage to say what needs to be said to who it needs to be said to. You'll both be better for it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Needs, Said

  Twitter post from Dec 24, 2013

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• The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Understanding, Tasks, Mutual

  "On the Pragmatics of Communication". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1998.

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• May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Understanding, May

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance mutual understanding may in fact hinder it; our instrument becomes our burden

  Irving Copi

  Communication, Science, Understanding

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• Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Silence, Understanding, Divinity

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• I hold to my conviction that, once this path of mutual understanding and consideration has been taken, more will come of it in the end than through ever so extensive pacts inherently lacking in clarity.

  Adolf Hitler

  Taken, Understanding, Path

  Source: nseuropa.wordpress.com

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• The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Class, Effort, Understanding

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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