(287 quotes found)
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood”
Stephen R. Covey
“Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”
Zig Ziglar
“What we do is never understood, but only praised and blamed.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.”
Napoleon Hill
“Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.”
Albert Camus
“Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood”
Carl Gustav Jung
“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.”
Charlie Chaplin
“More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.”
Kofi Annan
“Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.”
William Howard Taft
“The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.”
Alexander Haig
