Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

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

2.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

3.

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

4.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

5.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

6.

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

7.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

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

9.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

10.

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

James, Henry

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

13.

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

France, Anatole

14.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

15.

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

Goldman, Emma

16.

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

17.

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

Davis, Michael

18.

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

19.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

20.

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

21.

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

Mill, John Stuart

22.

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

Kafka, Franz

23.

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

24.

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

Saying, Zen

25.

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

26.

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.

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

Finley, Guy

28.

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.

29.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

30.

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

Upanishads, Veda

31.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

33.

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

Rostand, Jean

34.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

35.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

36.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

37.

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

Lewin, Kurt

38.

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

Lao-Tzu

39.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Simpson, Homer

40.

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

Fulbright, J. William

41.

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

Coty, Rene

42.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

43.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

45.

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

46.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

47.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

48.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

49.

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

Klassen, V. I.

50.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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