Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Lewin, Kurt

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Roth, Philip

2.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

3.

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

Upanishads, Veda

4.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

5.

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

Finley, Guy

6.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

7.

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

8.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

9.

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

Lewin, Kurt

10.

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

11.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

12.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

13.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

14.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

15.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

16.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

17.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Coty, Rene

21.

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

Augustine, St.

22.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

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

24.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

25.

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

Mill, John Stuart

26.

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

27.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

28.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Lao-Tzu

30.

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

Saying, Zen

31.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

32.

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

33.

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

Klassen, V. I.

34.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

Simpson, Homer

38.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

39.

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

Rostand, Jean

40.

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