Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Coty, Rene

Best Quotes about Understanding

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

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

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

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

Upanishads, Veda

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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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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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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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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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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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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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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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Burke, James E.

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Simpson, Homer

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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Lewin, Kurt

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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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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Roth, Philip

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

France, Anatole

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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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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Sinclair, Upton