Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Lewin, Kurt

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

2.

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

Mill, John Stuart

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

6.

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

7.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

8.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

9.

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

France, Anatole

10.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

11.

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

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.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

14.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

15.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

16.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

18.

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

Burke, James E.

19.

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

Lao-Tzu

20.

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

James, Henry

21.

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

Fulbright, J. William

22.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

25.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

26.

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

27.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

28.

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

Klassen, V. I.

29.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

30.

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

Kafka, Franz

31.

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

32.

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

33.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

36.

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

Davis, Michael

37.

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

Roth, Philip

38.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

39.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

40.

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

Coty, Rene

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

44.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

45.

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

Saying, Zen

46.

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

Augustine, St.

47.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

48.

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

Finley, Guy

49.

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

Goldman, Emma

50.

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