Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

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

Goldman, Emma

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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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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Burke, James E.

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

Lewin, Kurt

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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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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

Roth, Philip

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

Finley, Guy

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Simpson, Homer

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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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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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

France, Anatole

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

Coty, Rene

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

Lao-Tzu

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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.