Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Burke, James E.

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

Roth, Philip

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

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Coty, Rene

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

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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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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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 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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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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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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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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 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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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

24.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Augustine, St.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Burke, James E.

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

Upanishads, Veda

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

Goldman, Emma

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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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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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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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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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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

France, Anatole

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Klassen, V. I.

49.

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