Motivational Quotes

Understanding

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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

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

Kopp, Sheldon

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

Lewin, Kurt

10.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

Rostand, Jean

11.

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

Coty, Rene

12.

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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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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.

16.

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

Finley, Guy

17.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

20.

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

Davis, Michael

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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

24.

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

Roth, Philip

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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

26.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Upanishads, Veda

28.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

30.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

32.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

33.

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

Simpson, Homer

34.

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

Burke, James E.

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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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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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