quotes

The Best Quotations

best-quotations.com
 


My "other" sites:

best quotations about

Understanding people


Understanding  people

29 quotesVisits: 820

Quotations

Adolf HitlerYou will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.

—  Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator

18 likes
Lao-TzuHe who knows others is wise, but he who knows himself is enlightened.

—  Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher

13 likes
Helen RowlandTo be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

—  Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist

6 likes
Henry MillerIt is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

—  Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer

6 likes
Eugene IonescoPeople always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

—  Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright

5 likes
Elbert HubbardHe who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

—  Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer

5 likes
Karl JungKnowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

—  Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist

5 likes
Elbert HubbardIf men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.

—  Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer

5 likes
Ashleigh BrilliantWhen you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference.

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

5 likes
Søren KierkegaardMost people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes –but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

—  Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher

5 likes
Georg Christoph LichtenbergWhat is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

—  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims

4 likes
Oliver W. Holmes Sr.To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

—  Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer

4 likes
Henri JeansonA first impression is always right, especially when it is bad.

—  Henri Jeanson, 1900-1970, French critic & columnist

4 likes
Stefan ZweigHappy people are poor psychologists.

—  Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer

3 likes
ConfuciusI am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not understand others.

—  Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher

2 likes
Agatha ChristieNobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

—  Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, British writer

2 likes
John SteinbeckNo man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

—  John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962

Antoine RivarolWomen read each other at a single glance.

—  Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims

John SteinbeckTry 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, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962

Jean de La BruyèreIt is not possible to read a person at first sight. The virtues are usually covered by the veil of modesty, while the flaws wear the mask of hypocrisy.

—  Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer

William MaxwellHuman thought is by no means as private as it seems, and all that you need to read somebody else’s mind is the willingness to read your own.

—  William Maxwell, 1908-2000, American writer

Bernard BaruchI have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

—  Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman

Philip RothYou cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.

—  Philip Roth, 1933-2018, American writer

Ashleigh BrilliantI don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

Saul BellowHe was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.

—  Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976

George HerbertNone knows the weight of another’s burthen.

—  George Herbert, 1593-1633, Welsh poet

Milan KunderaThe emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

—  Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer

Funny Quotes

Ashleigh BrilliantI want to reach your mind
where is it currently located?

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

Ancient Greek

MenanderNobody knows what you think, but [everybody] sees what you do.

Ουδεὶς ό νοείς μεν οίδεν, ό δε ποιείς βλέπει.

—  Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy)

8 likes



Similar categories & topics of Quotations






Similar Topics

Psychology

Understanding

Relationships

Criticism

Motives

Opinion

Contrary Topics

Misunderstanding

 Popular Topics
1 Friendship
2 Victory & Defeat
3 Solitude
4 Seduction
5 Self-reliance
6 Ego
7 Drinking
8 Cunning
9 Eroticism
10 Nudity
11 Vanity
12 Self-deprecation
13 Incompetence
14 Sex
15 Religion
16 Meaning of Life
17 Life
18 Death
19 Corruption
20 Democracy
 

2024: Manolis Papathanassiou