Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

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

2.

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

Upanishads, Veda

3.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

4.

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

Lewin, Kurt

5.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely -- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

6.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

7.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

8.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

10.

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

Klassen, V. I.

11.

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

Fulbright, J. William

12.

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

13.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

14.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

15.

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

16.

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

Lao-Tzu

17.

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

Saying, Zen

18.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

19.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

20.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

21.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

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

Kafka, Franz

24.

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

25.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

27.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

28.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

29.

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

Simpson, Homer

30.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

32.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

33.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

34.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

35.

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

36.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

37.

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

Roth, Philip

38.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

39.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

40.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Goldman, Emma

45.

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

Finley, Guy

46.

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

Coty, Rene

47.

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