Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Finley, Guy

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

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

Fulbright, J. William

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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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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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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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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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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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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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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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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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 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 clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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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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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

France, Anatole

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

Coty, Rene

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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

Davis, Michael

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Simpson, Homer

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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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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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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