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

1.

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

2.

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

Upanishads, Veda

3.

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

Burke, James E.

4.

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

James, Henry

5.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

6.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

7.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

8.

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

Lao-Tzu

9.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

10.

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

11.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

12.

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

13.

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

Kafka, Franz

14.

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

Augustine, St.

15.

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

Finley, Guy

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

19.

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

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

22.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

23.

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

24.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

25.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

26.

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

Lewin, Kurt

27.

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

Rostand, Jean

28.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

29.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

31.

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

Klassen, V. I.

32.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

34.

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

Coty, Rene

35.

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

Roth, Philip

36.

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

Simpson, Homer

37.

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

France, Anatole

38.

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

Davis, Michael

39.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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.

41.

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

Goldman, Emma

42.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

47.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

48.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

49.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!