Motivational Quotes

Understanding

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Rostand, Jean

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Fulbright, J. William

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Coty, Rene

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

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

France, Anatole

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

11.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

Roth, Philip

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

Burke, James E.

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Augustine, St.

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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.

25.

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

Davis, Michael

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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

27.

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

Upanishads, Veda

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Lewin, Kurt

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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.

35.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Goldman, Emma

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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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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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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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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

43.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.