Motivational Quotes

Understanding

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Understanding

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Kettering, Charles F.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Coty, Rene

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 power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Lao-Tzu

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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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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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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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Lewin, Kurt

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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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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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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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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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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

31.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

32.

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

33.

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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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Goldman, Emma

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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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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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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

Augustine, St.

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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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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

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

Upanishads, Veda

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier