The 90 best comprehension phrases

The world needs more understanding, of that there is no doubt. It is this emotional and cognitive capacity that leads us to empathize with the different situations that people around us face. of the world, which leads us to establish a feeling of brotherhood and collaboration, leaving aside the 'differences' that separate.

In the following lines you will find a selection of phrases about comprehension that help to understand this way of connecting with someone.

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The most memorable comprehension phrases

These quotes and reflections on understanding show the nuances of this way of empathizing and connecting with other people.

1. The worst thing that can happen to anyone is being fully understood. (Carl Gustav Jung)

We seek to generate empathy through understanding, not a form of threat.

2. Who does not understand a look will not understand a long explanation either. (Arabic proverb)

Pay attention to body language.

3. Art and culture increase harmony, tolerance and understanding between people. (Matilde Asensi)

Art has the ability to unite thousands of people.

4. Peace cannot be maintained by force; it can only be achieved through understanding. (Albert Einstein)

In this way we are able to understand and empathize with other people's situations.

5. If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, what you are will undergo a transformation. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

All change must be for the better.

6. Mutual understanding would be greatly facilitated by the use of a universal language. (Nicholas Tesla)

Proposing the same language for all.

7. If we were truly able to understand, we would no longer be able to judge. (André Malraux)

The purpose behind understanding.

8. Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. (Neil Armstrong)

Every unknown thing invites us to investigate.

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9. One of the traps of childhood is that you don't have to understand something to feel it. (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)

We not only need logic, but also emotion.

10. Only an educated mind can understand a thought other than yours, without having to accept it. (Aristotle)

All opinions must be respected, as long as they do not harm anyone.

11. You get tired of everything except understanding. (Publio Virgilio Marón)

Understanding leads us to grow.

12. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vindictive or malicious. (Phillips Brooks)

It is better to have a positive attitude and get along with others.

13. There are songs that save your life. Knowing that someone before felt what you are feeling at that moment, you are no longer alone. (Javier Cámara)

Emotions can bring us together.

14. Only with the heart can you see clearly. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

Never judge without knowing.

15. I don't like that man. I have to get to know him better. (Abraham Lincoln)

A correct attitude to take.

16. A better world is born on the basis of faith and understanding. (Douglas MacArthur)

Through positive actions, the world can be better.

17. Life is the first gift, love the second, and understanding the third. (Marge Piercy)

Gifts that we cannot despise.

18. Improved understanding serves two purposes: first, our own increased knowledge; second, to allow us to pass that knowledge on to others. (John Locke)

The importance of putting understanding into practice.

19. The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. (Leonardo da Vinci)

When we understand something, we acquire a new capacity.

20. Only he who is capable of loving everything is capable of understanding. (Gregorio Marañón)

There can be no understanding without acceptance.

21. In your relationship with anyone, you lose a lot if you don't take the time to understand them. (Rob Goldston)

Every relationship takes time for both people to get to know each other.

22. How much comfort we would find if we told our secrets. (John Churton Collins)

Keeping harmful secrets makes us vulnerable.

23. He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened. (Lao Tzu)

It is not only about understanding others, but also ourselves.

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24. Mediocre minds often dismiss anything that is beyond their understanding. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

This is why ignorance is so dangerous.

25. When you have learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at and not the things that should not, you will have wisdom and understanding. (Lucy Montgomery)

Great advice.

26. Insanity is like understanding, you know? It cannot be explained. (Marguerite Duras)

It's more about emotional intelligence.

27. He who understands does not speak, he who speaks does not understand. (Proverb)

Everything has its time and its place.

28. I do not want the peace that passes understanding. I want the understanding that brings peace. (Helen Keller)

The understanding that the world needs.

29. Sadness is caused by intelligence; the more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn't understand them. (Charles Bukowski)

It is necessary to understand the bad to look for the good.

30. To understand everything is to forgive everything. (Lev Tolstoy)

Which leads us to overcome things.

31. If you understand and show that you understand, you can love and the situation will change. (Thich Nhat Hanh)

It is useless to understand if you will not put it into practice.

32. Understanding is a two-way street. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

As you give, you receive.

33. When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and return that understanding to them, it is as if you are giving them emotional oxygen. (Stephen Covey)

The power behind understanding.

34. Conversation enriches understanding, but loneliness is the school of genius. (Edward Gibbon)

It never hurts to spend some time alone to get to know each other.

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35. "Thank you" is the best sentence anyone could say. A "thank you" expresses gratitude, humility, understanding. (Alice Walker)

It all starts with a gesture of kindness.

36. The woman understands the child better than the man, but the man is more of the child than the woman. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Different understandings.

37. Man is always ready to deny everything that he does not understand. (Blaise Pascal)

It is easier to deny something than to make an effort to understand it.

38. When he was young, he believed that love had to do with understanding; But as I grew older I discovered that no human being understands another. (Graham Greene)

You never get to understand someone at all, but you can sympathize with his situation.

39. We all have two lives. The second begins when we realize that we only have one. (Confucius)

So take advantage of every moment you have.

40. The eye sees only what the mind is ready to understand. (Henri Bergson)

It all depends on the way we interpret the world.

41. Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain; but it takes character and self-control to understand and forgive. (Dale Carnegie)

Don't be a fool.

42. Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only by accepting can you recover. (J.K. Rowling)

The only way to move forward is to accept things.

43. True love is born from understanding. (Buddha)

There can be no love if there is no understanding in the couple.

44. It is better to understand a little than not understand much. (Anatole France)

You are not ignorant if you know something.

45. You have to know, not fear, know that one day you are going to die, and until you understand that, you are useless. (Brad Pitt)

Unknown things are no longer intimidating when we understand them.

46. Help me understand what I am saying and I will explain it to you better. (Antonio Machado)

An excellent invitation.

47. There are things that cannot be understood except by the heart and that will continue to be an insoluble enigma even to the highest intelligence. (Dmitry Sergeyevich Merejkovsky)

Sometimes it is better to listen to our instincts.

48. By the time reason is able to understand what happened, the wounds in the heart are already too deep. (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)

In that case, now you have to work to heal.

49. What you cannot understand, you cannot possess. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

They will be a permanent mystery.

50. All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered, the point is to discover them. (Galileo Galilei)

Everything needs a why.

51. There is nothing heavier than understanding. (Milan Kundera)

It makes us discover positive things and very shady things.

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52. Seek first to understand, then to be understood. (Stephen Covey)

One step at a time and you will achieve what you set out to do.

53. When people speak, they listen completely. Most people never listen. (Ernest Hemingway)

Understanding requires active listening.

54. That night, I discovered that many things considered malefic or evil... they are simply lonely and lacking in social delicacy. (Ewan McGregor)

The things we reject are generally misunderstood.

55. To understand the heart and mind of a person, do not look at what he has done, do not look at what he has achieved but what he aspires to do. (Khalil Gibran)

Don't hold on to the past to get to know someone.

56. I have very reduced that part of the head destined to receive things that are not clear. (Joseph Joubert)

For understanding, you need to have an open mind.

57. Nothing can be more bitter than not being understood. (Henrik Visen)

When we are misunderstood, the feeling of loneliness is born.

58. The only limit to our understanding of tomorrow will be our doubts about the present. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

You may not understand something now, but in time you will.

59. He who does not understand your silence, probably he does not understand your words. (Elbert Green Hubbard)

Our gestures sometimes speak louder than we do.

60. One day, we may all meet together in the light of understanding. (Malcolm X)

An objective that we must not lose sight of.

61. Nothing is stranger than the word itself makes sense to someone else. It is extraordinary and it is incomprehensible. (Santiago Kovadloff)

A mystery that leads us to a better relationship with others.

62. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. (Mohandas K. Gandhi)

Enemies that make people create enmities.

63. With understanding you cannot hate anyone, not even cruel people, but you can help them transform their physical, emotional and social conditions. (Thich Nhat Hanh)

That is why it is important to foster empathy.

64. The important thing, especially while they are young, is understanding rather than cultivating memory. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

All knowledge requires reasoning and feeling.

65. You don't have to wait to understand, and you don't have to be successful to persevere. (Unknown author)

If you want to understand something, do it on your own.

66. The man knows much more than he understands. (Alfred Adler)

Wisdom is something almost unattainable for many.

67. Seek first to understand and then to be understood. (Stephen R. Covey)

Remember that it is the same precept of giving and receiving.

68. The idiot considers false everything that he cannot understand. (Saint Thomas of Aquino)

That is why you have to be careful with ignorance.

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69. Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. (Sterling K. Brown)

Many conflicts occur because of our stupidity to be right in everything.

70. Understanding is the beginning of passing. (Baruch Spinoza)

Understanding is the beginning of many actions.

71. Few times have you understood me and few times did I understand you. It was only when we were in the mud that we understood each other at once. (Heinrich Heine)

It is when we share situations that we can empathize.

72. Our species needs and deserves citizenship with a sharp mind and a basic understanding of how the world works. (Carl Sagan)

The future of humanity depends on our empathy.

73. Perhaps one did not want so much to be loved as to be understood. (George Orwell)

Love can be demonstrated through understanding.

74. The understanding is not absolutely final. What is right now could be wrong later. (Toba Beta)

Understanding does not mean staying stuck with the same thought.

75. You cannot put the same shoe on each foot. (Publilius Syrus)

Every situation experienced is different for people.

76. Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual appreciation. (Roll May)

Good communication fosters an excellent future relationship.

77. I have diligently tried not to laugh at human actions, or mourn them, or hate them, but to understand them. (Baruch Spinoza)

It is necessary to know how to handle our emotions.

78. Try to understand, you are not a character of tragedy. (Ernest Hemingway)

What prevents you from sitting and listening to others?

79. The least we can do, in service of something, is understand it. (José Ortega y Gasset)

The best way to help someone is to understand their situation.

80. Each of us sees 'green' differently. Thus, everything is an approximation of understanding. (Nick Bantock)

Our opinions do not matter, but rather that we are able to respect ourselves.

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81. Human understanding of its own nature is prone to assuming more order and regularity in the world than it encounters. (Sir Francis Bacon)

It is necessary to analyze the actions that benefit us and those that do not.

82. Understanding frees the mind, awakens the critical faculty of analysis. It enables them to see the significance of the fact, not just to rationalize it. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

The way our mind opens.

83. If you are following the classic pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow, you are not understanding yourself. (Bruce Lee)

Traditions are not always good for our growth.

84. Humility is the light of understanding. (John Bunyan)

Being humble leads us to build better relationships.

85. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived looking forward. (Søren Kierkegaard)

Great advice on understanding and moving forward.

86. You don't find yourself until you face the truth. (Pearl Bailey)

The truth hurts, but it is necessary.

87. Studying the abnormal is the best way to understand the normal. (William James)

We must never fear what we do not know.

88. Only good friends know how to understand when their presence bothers us. (Noel Clarasó)

A good friend knows how to respect your needs.

89. We disdain or hate ourselves because we don't understand each other because we don't bother to study ourselves. (Santiago Ramón y Cajal)

The real reason behind so much global hatred.

90. Great torment to live with someone who hates us; greater torture dealing with those who do not understand us. (Niceto Alcalá Zamora Y Torres)

Stay away from those who are unable to respect you.