Motivational Quotes

Understanding

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Understanding

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

Kopp, Sheldon

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Saying, Zen

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

Finley, Guy

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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

11.

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

Augustine, St.

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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 better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

France, Anatole

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

Burke, James E.

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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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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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 man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really understand them is bad morals.

James, Henry

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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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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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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Kafka, Franz

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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 noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Davis, Michael

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

Goldman, Emma

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

Upanishads, Veda

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Roth, Philip

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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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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

39.

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 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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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

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

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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

45.

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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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 man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lewin, Kurt

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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.