Motivational Quotes

Understanding

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

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

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sinclair, Upton

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

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

Simpson, Homer

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Goldman, Emma

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Davis, Michael

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Coty, Rene

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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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

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

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

Augustine, St.

33.

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

Finley, Guy

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

Kafka, Franz

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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 to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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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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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

France, Anatole

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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