Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

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

Coty, Rene

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

Kopp, Sheldon

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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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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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Goldman, Emma

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

France, Anatole

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

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Simpson, Homer

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Finley, Guy

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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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 nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Burke, James E.

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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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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Davis, Michael

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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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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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