Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Goldman, Emma

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Klassen, V. I.

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

James, Henry

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

10.

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

11.

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

Burke, James E.

12.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

13.

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

Goldman, Emma

15.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

Fulbright, J. William

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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

17.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

18.

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

France, Anatole

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

Augustine, St.

21.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

22.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

23.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

25.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

27.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

28.

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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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

31.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

32.

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

33.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

35.

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

Davis, Michael

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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

37.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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

40.

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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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 does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

43.

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

Coty, Rene

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

Buck, Pearl S.