Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

2.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

3.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

4.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

6.

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

Lewin, Kurt

7.

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

8.

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

Klassen, V. I.

9.

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

Davis, Michael

10.

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

Augustine, St.

11.

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

12.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

13.

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

Saying, Zen

14.

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

Coty, Rene

15.

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

Upanishads, Veda

16.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

17.

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

Sinclair, Upton

18.

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

Finley, Guy

19.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

20.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

21.

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

Goldman, Emma

22.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

23.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

24.

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

Roth, Philip

25.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

26.

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

27.

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

France, Anatole

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Kafka, Franz

32.

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

Burke, James E.

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

35.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

36.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

37.

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

Mill, John Stuart

38.

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

39.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

40.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

42.

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

43.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

44.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

45.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

46.

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.

47.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

48.

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

49.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

50.

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