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

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

Lao-Tzu

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Augustine, St.

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

Lewin, Kurt

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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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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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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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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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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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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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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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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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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

Burke, James E.

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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