Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

And, most important, we have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.

Ornstein, Robert E.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Coty, Rene

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

Goldman, Emma

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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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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

18.

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

Davis, Michael

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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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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

24.

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

France, Anatole

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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

Lewin, Kurt

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Mill, John Stuart

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Augustine, St.

34.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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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

39.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Saying, Zen

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

48.

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

Upanishads, Veda

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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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Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Simpson, Homer