Motivational Quotes

Understanding

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Sinclair, Upton

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

11.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Lewin, Kurt

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Goldman, Emma

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

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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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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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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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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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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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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 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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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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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.