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Understanding

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Understanding Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Understanding

1.
UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

2.
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
Howard, Vernon

3.
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Rostand, Jean

4.
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.
If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.
Diana, Princess of Wales

6.
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
Russell, Bertrand

7.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Hobbes, Thomas

8.
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
Mill, John Stuart

9.
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Breton, Andre

10.
We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
Thoreau, Henry David

11.
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.
'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.
Francis of Assisi, St.

13.
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

14.
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Lewin, Kurt

15.
I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.
Diana, Princess of Wales

16.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Covey, Stephen R.

17.
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be --not understood, but divined.
Gourmont, Remy De

18.
It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.
Upanishads, Veda

19.
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Peale, Norman Vincent

21.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Da Vinci, Leonardo

22.
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
Roth, Philip

23.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Kafka, Franz

24.
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand
Howard, Vernon

25.
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
Carlyle, Thomas

26.
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
Butler, Samuel

27.
Man know much more than he understands.
Adler, Alfred

28.
The fact that you are willing to say, I do not understand, and it is fine, is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Dyer, Wayne

29.
No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
Klassen, V. I.

30.
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
Diana, Princess of Wales

31.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Hubbard, Elbert

32.
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

33.
Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

34.
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
Fulbright, J. William

35.
It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
France, Anatole

36.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Locke, John

37.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Sinclair, Upton

38.
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Finley, Guy

39.
What we do not understand, we cannot control.
Reich, Charles

40.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

41.
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Augustine, St.

42.
I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.
Davis, Michael

43.
Understanding brings control.
Bonewitz

44.
To understand is to perceive patterns.
Berlin, Sir Isaiah

45.
It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
Coty, Rene

46.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
Saying, Zen

47.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
King Jr. Martin Luther

48.
The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

49.
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed -- That can make life a garden.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell


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