Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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.

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

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

Goldman, Emma

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Davis, Michael

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

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

Klassen, V. I.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

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

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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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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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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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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Upanishads, Veda

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

France, Anatole

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

Augustine, St.

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah