Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Davis, Michael

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

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

2.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

3.

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

Augustine, St.

4.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

5.

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

Finley, Guy

6.

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

Coty, Rene

7.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

8.

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

9.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

11.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

12.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

13.

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

Saying, Zen

14.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

16.

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

Lewin, Kurt

17.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Simpson, Homer

19.

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

20.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

Fulbright, J. William

21.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

23.

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

Goldman, Emma

24.

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

25.

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

Rostand, Jean

26.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

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

Upanishads, Veda

29.

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

James, Henry

30.

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

31.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

32.

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

33.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

34.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

Sinclair, Upton

39.

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

Lao-Tzu

40.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

41.

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

42.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

43.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

44.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

45.

No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.

Klassen, V. I.

46.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

47.

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

48.

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

Davis, Michael

49.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

50.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor