Quotes and Sayings about Understanding

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

Peace Volkstrauertag

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard

Life Experience

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell in 1984

Let us enjoy life as long as we don't understand it.

Kurt Tucholsky

Life

Can we actually 'know' the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.

Woody Allen

Universe

So everyone just pretends to understand... and pretends to be understood.

Monokuma in Danganronpa

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Phillips Brooks

Patience & Endurance

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

J. Michael Straczynski

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

Carl Jung

Humanity

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

Emma Goldman

Forgiveness & Mercy

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

Fear

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Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

Life Breakup

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.

Stephenie Meyer in Twilight

Life Death Suicide

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Dreaming

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Teams

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Reason & Sanity Imagination

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

Foolishness Technology Generations

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

Peace

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

Peace

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

William Penn

Death Allerheiligen Volkstrauertag

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana

War Memorial Day Volkstrauertag

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Søren Kierkegaard

Life

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Søren Kierkegaard

Simba: "Ouh. Jeez, what was that for?"
Rafiki: "It doesn't matter, it's in the past."
Simba: "Yeah, but it still hurts."
Rafiki: "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."

Rafiki in The Lion King

Experience Past

Oh yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

Rafiki in The Lion King

Experience Past

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell in Animal Farm

Freedom Hearing & Listening

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

George Orwell in Animal Farm

Animals

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell in 1984

Future Past Present

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

George Orwell in 1984

You need lots of patience to learn how to be patient.

Kurt Tucholsky

Patience & Endurance

It's great to share silence with someone else.

Kurt Tucholsky

Being Silent

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving.

Woody Allen

Love Breakup

I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you've lost.

Woody Allen

Memories Past

Everything existing in the Universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Democritus

Universe

When it comes to the universe we're all shareholders.

Wish

Universe

Wherever there is hope, there is most definitely despair.

Junko Enoshima in Danganronpa

I'm rather proud of my ability to tell lies. I can trick not only others, but even my own heart.

Celestia Ludenberg in Danganronpa

To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Phillips Brooks

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Phillips Brooks

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

Baker Mayfield

Patience & Endurance

Castle: "Do I look like a killer to you?"
Beckett: "Yes. You kill my patience."

Kate Beckett in Castle

Patience & Endurance

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

J. Michael Straczynski

Character

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

J. Michael Straczynski

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Carl Jung

Darkness

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Jung

Life Happiness Darkness

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Humanity Breakup Grief & Condolence

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