Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

Finley, Guy

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

France, Anatole

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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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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 is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Mill, John Stuart

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Coty, Rene

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

Saying, Zen

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

Goldman, Emma

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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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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Burke, James E.

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Fulbright, J. William

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

43.

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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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

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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