88 Best Understanding Quotes

I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'm asking you to understand.

To know your enemy, you must become your enemy. – Shoryu

The fire service: Where your coworkers know you better than your family.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men. – Confucius

A man must befriend his foe to truly know him.

Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.

Be gentle with yourself. You're doing battle with something most will never understand.

Depression is like a bruise that never shows, but hurts all the time. - J.K. Rowling

But she doesn't quite like the prince. – Beast

Mr. Hallorann, you've got the shinin', too. – Danny Torrance

You can't give truth to a person. They have to find it for themselves. – Hohenheim

Everyone is fighting their own battle. – Fuu

If you want to get to know someone, find out what makes them angry. – Gon Freecss

I don't need to understand you to fight you. – Sukuna

A person who doesn’t know pain can’t understand true peace. – Makishima Shogo

The moment you think you understand someone, that’s when you’re most mistaken. – Kogami Shinya

I don't understand complex things, but I do understand that you're suffering, Okarin. – Mayuri Shiina

I want to know more about you. I want to be with you. – Nagisa Furukawa

I want you to teach me your signs. I want to understand what you're trying to say. – Shoya Ishida

I want us to understand each other. – Shoya Ishida

I want to hear what you have to say. – Shoya Ishida

The Sea of Corruption is neither a devil nor a punishment from God. It is a world that purifies the pollution that humans have created. – Lord Yupa

Ohmu are not our enemies! They protect the forest. They don't attack people without reason. – Nausicaä

It's not a demon. It's a bug! A hand lens! Give me a hand lens! – Nausicaä

Look with eyes unclouded by hate. – Nausicaä

The earth speaks to all of us, and if we listen, we can understand. – Pazu

I don't care what everyone likes. Ogres are not like cakes. – Donkey

People make bad choices if they’re mad or scared or stressed. – Anna

I don't even know what true love is. – Anna

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. – Atticus Finch

Atticus, he was real nice... Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them. – Scout Finch

I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time... it's because he wants to stay inside. – Jem Finch

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. – Scout Finch

Those who do not weep, do not see.

I have admitted that. I have admitted everything. To you, what would have been the use? There was no one who would have been of the slightest help to me. You are the one man who is entitled to know everything. You had something in your art that I have never seen in the art of any other living man. It had a suggestion of a strange personality. It was something that, I felt, if I ever told you, you would understand. What is the use of my telling you what you have seen for yourself? – Dorian Gray

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

She is a friend of my mind.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

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

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. – Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. – Albert Einstein

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. – Nelson Mandela

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. – Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood. – Leonardo da Vinci

Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Be curious, not judgmental. – Ted Lasso

All people are different people. – Ted Lasso

You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? – Sean Maguire

Yeah, I see what you're gettin' at. He's got his own language. – Joe Dirt

There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.