One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Tag: Understanding
Most people do not listen with the intent…
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. Most people listen with the intent to reply.
-Stephen Covey
Ask yourself if you’re truly listening to others or if you’re being distracted by your own chatter. Listening means staying silent to give others a chance to talk, soaking it in, then responding if needed.
I have striven all my life not to…
I have striven all my life, not to hate human action, not to laugh at human action, not to weep at human action but to understand human action.
-Spinzoa
A stupid man’s report of what a clever…
A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
Just because no one understands you does not…
Just because no one understands you does not mean that you are not on the right track.
Robin Sharma
In human intercourse the tragedy begins not when…
In human intercourse, the tragedy begins not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau