Motivational Quotes

Understanding

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Understanding

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

Hazlitt, William

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Lao-Tzu

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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really understand them is bad morals.

James, Henry

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

Fulbright, J. William

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The key to why things change is the key to everything.

Burke, James E.

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When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow men.

Mcgranahan, Norvin

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Augustine, St.

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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

Kopp, Sheldon

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It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

France, Anatole

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Roth, Philip

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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

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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.

Klassen, V. I.

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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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

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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Giovanni, Nikki

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Kafka, Franz

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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

Mill, John Stuart

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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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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

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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

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Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Goldman, Emma

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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

41.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

Davis, Michael

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I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

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

Sinclair, Upton

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There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Upanishads, Veda

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.