Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

Klassen, V. I.

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

James, Henry

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Rostand, Jean

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Kafka, Franz

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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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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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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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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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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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

Upanishads, Veda

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

33.

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

France, Anatole

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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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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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

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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 one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Davis, Michael

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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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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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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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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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