Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

France, Anatole

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

6.

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

Saying, Zen

7.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

8.

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

Simpson, Homer

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

10.

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

Burke, James E.

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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

12.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

Klassen, V. I.

15.

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

Augustine, St.

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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

17.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

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

Rostand, Jean

21.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

22.

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

Roth, Philip

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

Davis, Michael

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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

25.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

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

27.

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

28.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Sinclair, Upton

29.

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

James, Henry

30.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

35.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

36.

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

Goldman, Emma

37.

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

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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