Motivational Quotes

Understanding

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

- Reich, Charles

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Kafka, Franz

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

France, Anatole

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

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

Burke, James E.

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 clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Upanishads, Veda

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Augustine, St.

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Klassen, V. I.

33.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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

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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

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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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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Goldman, Emma