Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

103. — Those who know their minds do not necessarily know their hearts.

Successful cooperation does not equate to successful understanding.

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.

People's true feelings are not in plain sight. The other person might not be thinking anything, but there is a tendency to just assume what the other is feeling without reaching out and asking.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

The less a person understands his own feelings, the more he will fall prey to them. The less a person understands the feelings, the responses, and the behavior of others, the more likely he will interact inappropriately with them and therefore fail to secure his proper place in the world.

Why can't they understand the way we feel? They just don't trust what they can't explain. I know we're different, but deep inside us we're not that different at all.

Little understanding cannot come up to great understanding; the short-lived cannot come up to the long-lived.

Managers who do not understand people's different thinking styles cannot understand how the people working for them will handle different situations.

We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

Empathy is not relating to an experience, it’s connecting to what someone is feeling about an experience.