Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- James, Henry

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 person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Klassen, V. I.

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

Roth, Philip

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Burke, James E.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

10.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

11.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Davis, Michael

13.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

14.

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

Lao-Tzu

15.

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

James, Henry

16.

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

17.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

18.

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

19.

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

Fulbright, J. William

20.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

21.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

22.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

Upanishads, Veda

28.

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

29.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

30.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

31.

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

32.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

33.

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

Lewin, Kurt

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

37.

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

Goldman, Emma

38.

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

Sinclair, Upton

39.

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

40.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

41.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

42.

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

France, Anatole

43.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

44.

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

45.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

46.

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

47.

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

Simpson, Homer

48.

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

Kafka, Franz

49.

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

50.

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