Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- France, Anatole

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

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

Lao-Tzu

2.

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

3.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

4.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

5.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

6.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

7.

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

James, Henry

8.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

9.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

10.

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

Upanishads, Veda

11.

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

Sinclair, Upton

12.

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

13.

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

14.

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

Butler, Samuel

15.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

16.

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

Goldman, Emma

17.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

18.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

19.

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

Kafka, Franz

20.

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

Mill, John Stuart

21.

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

Klassen, V. I.

22.

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

Simpson, Homer

23.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

24.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

25.

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

26.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

27.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Coty, Rene

31.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

32.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

33.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

34.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

35.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

36.

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

Lewin, Kurt

37.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

39.

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

Augustine, St.

40.

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

41.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

42.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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.

45.

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

Finley, Guy

46.

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

France, Anatole

47.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

48.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself