Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Fulbright, J. William

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Davis, Michael

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

Klassen, V. I.

13.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Simpson, Homer

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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.

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

France, Anatole

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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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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Roth, Philip

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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

Burke, James E.

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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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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

Finley, Guy

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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 one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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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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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

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

Coty, Rene

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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