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

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

Klassen, V. I.

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

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Sinclair, Upton

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

Upanishads, Veda

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

Kafka, Franz

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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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Goldman, Emma

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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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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 key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

18.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

France, Anatole

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

Coty, Rene

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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 understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

Saying, Zen

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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

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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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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

Davis, Michael

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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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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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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Rostand, Jean

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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