Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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.

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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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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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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Upanishads, Veda

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

Kettering, Charles F.

25.

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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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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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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 key to why things change is the key to everything.

Burke, James E.

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

32.

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

France, Anatole

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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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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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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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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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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Lewin, Kurt

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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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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Goldman, Emma

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Finley, Guy