Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Kafka, Franz

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

France, Anatole

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

10.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

11.

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

Sinclair, Upton

12.

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

Goldman, Emma

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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

14.

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

Augustine, St.

15.

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

Lao-Tzu

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

17.

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

Rostand, Jean

18.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

19.

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

Roth, Philip

20.

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

Burke, James E.

22.

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.

24.

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

Davis, Michael

25.

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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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

28.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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

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

Upanishads, Veda

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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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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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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Coty, Rene

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