Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Coty, Rene

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

James, Henry

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Goldman, Emma

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Klassen, V. I.

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Upanishads, Veda

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

France, Anatole

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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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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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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Burke, James E.

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

Simpson, Homer

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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