Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Kopp, Sheldon

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

2.

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.

3.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

4.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

5.

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

6.

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

Augustine, St.

7.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

8.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

9.

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

France, Anatole

10.

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

Finley, Guy

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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

14.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

16.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

17.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

20.

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

Kafka, Franz

21.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

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

23.

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

Davis, Michael

24.

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

25.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

26.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

28.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

29.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

30.

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

Goldman, Emma

31.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

32.

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

Burke, James E.

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

34.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

35.

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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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

37.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

38.

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

Rostand, Jean

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

43.

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

James, Henry

44.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.