Understanding Him Quotes

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  To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "Become a Conscious Creator: A Return to Self-Empowerment". Book by Lisa Ford, 2007.

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• He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Grieving, Self Respect, Silence

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Stupid, Understanding

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler (1970). “Mysterium coniunctionis”

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  You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Positivity, Sunshine

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.81, Infobase Publishing

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• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

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

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• If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Crush, Men, Understanding

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lions, Language, Ifs

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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• Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Acceptance

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by Pyotr Ouspensky, 1949.

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  Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

  Euripides

  Relationship, Stupid, Communication

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him.

  Allen W. Wood

  Reading, Understanding, Prejudice

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When you are human, you discover that there is great power in hating the earth. And it can almost make you fly. But it never will." I had frowned, not quite understanding him. "So, what's the trick?" "Love the sky.

  Anne Fortier

  Hate, Angel, Forget Everything

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.148, Ballantine Books

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• What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Men, Giving, Understanding

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Being”, Library of Alexandria

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• Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Fire, Tree, Understanding

  George Gaylord Simpson (1967). “The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man”, p.345, Yale University Press

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• I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  God, Thinking, Knowing

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.136, Parkstone International

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• If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him.

  Jane Addams

  Pigs, Understanding, Trying

  Jane Addams (1961). “Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes, by Jane Addams. With a Foreword by Henry Steele Commager, Drawings by Norah Hamilton”

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• For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I had the novel to refer to. It's always really helpful to have all of that information and all of those hundreds more words which give you an idea into the background and your character and all.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Ideas, Giving

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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