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“When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.”

Understanding Imagination Taxes Understanding Others

Author:Lawrence Hill

“Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.”

“We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.”

Earth Certain Culture Spirituality Understanding Environment Harmony Understanding Others Other Cultures Aboriginal

Author:Ian Cohen

“I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.”

Thinking World Ideas Culture Understanding Study Happened Cooking Curiosity Reviews Guests Mechanism Cuisine Understanding Others Reviewers Other Cultures

Author:Ted Allen

“Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.”

Understanding Knowledge Strength Enlightenment Oneself Conquer Understanding Others Conquering Others

Book:Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way

Source: Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way

“Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.”

Way Mind Humans Children Long Inspiration Motivation Understanding Break Long Time Adults Understanding Others

Author:Rebecca Saxe

“It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.”

Men Book Philosophy Character Feelings Understanding Sound Profound Depth Traits Understanding Others

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.”

People Knows Reading Understanding Pleasure Novel Compensation Understanding Others Pleasure Of Reading

Book:Aspects Of the Novel

Source: Aspects Of the Novel

“We like to read others but we do not like to be read.”

Understanding Understanding Others

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.”

Feelings Understanding Capable Understanding Others

Author:Andre Gide

“To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.”

Needs Matter Eye Difficult Understanding Wise Truth Is Tasks Teenager Length Delicate Misunderstanding Understanding Others Sad Truth

Author:Haim Ginott

“The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.”

Said Understanding Misunderstood Understanding Others

Author:William Saroyan

“Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.”

Knows Men Want Hard Understanding Honestly Women Want Understanding Others Why Me

Author:Deborah Tannen