Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Goldman, Emma

Best Quotes about Understanding

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

Rostand, Jean

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Augustine, St.

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

Finley, Guy

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

Roth, Philip

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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

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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

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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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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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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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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Upanishads, Veda

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

James, Henry

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Burke, James E.

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

Coty, Rene

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

Simpson, Homer

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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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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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.