Understanding Each Other Quotes:

Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.

- Anne Tyler

topic: Mean, Understanding, Understanding Each Other

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

- John Steinbeck

source: John Steinbeck (1994). “Of Mice and Men”, p.5, Penguin

topic: Hate, Men, Knowing, Travels With Charley, Understanding And Love

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

- Seneca the Younger

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

topic: Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty, Songs And Friendship, Inspirational Friendship

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Travel, Laughter, Journey, Inspiration To Others, Inspirational Adventure

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Life, Political, Understanding, Living Together, Understanding Each Other

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

- Elie Wiesel

source: Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

topic: Punishment, Understanding, Tower Of Babel, Babel, Understanding Each Other

How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?

- Lester B. Pearson

source: Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

topic: People, Understanding, Knows, Understanding Each Other

I just want to open up the avenues for people to express themselves. That's what the media ought to be. It shouldn't just be a conveyer belt of shiny products to buy. It should be a way that we're all communicating and understanding each other.

- Joseph Gordon-Levitt

topic: Media, People, Understanding, Understanding Each Other

......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict.

- Joseph Campbell

source: Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Buddhist, Communication, Interesting, Buddhist Monk, Signposts

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

- Joshua Homme

source: Source: www.rollingstone.com

topic: Thinking, Understanding, Relief, Understanding Each Other

Little by little, Leo [Messi] and I are understanding each other better.

- Neymar

topic: Leo Messi, Understanding Each Other

Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a god thanks to its own creative ability. And, thanks to its victory over space and time, it would now be splendidly united for all time, if it were not confused again and again by that fatal delusion which causes humankind to keep on destroying this grandiose unity and to destroy itself with the same resources which gave it power over the elements.

- Stefan Zweig

topic: Confused, Space, Creative, Grandiose, Understanding Each Other

Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.

- Luigi Pirandello

source: Luigi Pirandello (1987). “The late Mattia Pascal”, Eridanos Library

topic: Ambition, Soul, Understanding, Understanding Each Other

The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: People, Understanding, Sorrow, Spiteful, Understanding Each Other

The main reason for civilization is that life is more comfortable. In a way, houses are there to protect us from rain, cold, and heat; cars are there to overcome distances. Culture is the exception. Music, art, and all of the different cultural expressions are not going in that direction. They're not about comfort; they're about understanding each other.

- Pipilotti Rist

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Art, Distance, Rain, Understanding Each Other