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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.
Understanding Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Understanding

1.
Understanding brings control.
Bonewitz

2.
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

3.
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

4.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Kafka, Franz

5.
The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
Kopp, Sheldon

6.
No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
Klassen, V. I.

7.
It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
Coty, Rene

8.
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

9.
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.
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

11.
I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.
Diana, Princess of Wales

12.
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
Roth, Philip

13.
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
Fulbright, J. William

14.
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
Howard, Vernon

15.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

16.
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand
Howard, Vernon

17.
It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.
Upanishads, Veda

18.
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

19.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really understand them is bad morals.
James, Henry

20.
The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

21.
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Giovanni, Nikki

22.
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Augustine, St.

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.
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

25.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Hubbard, Elbert

26.
UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

27.
The key to why things change is the key to everything.
Burke, James E.

28.
Return to the root and you will find the meaning.
Seng-Ts'an

29.
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Goldman, Emma

30.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.
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

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

35.
Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.
Lewis, Beca

36.
Man know much more than he understands.
Adler, Alfred

37.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Sinclair, Upton

38.
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

39.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Simpson, Homer

40.
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
Carlyle, Thomas

41.
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Kettering, Charles F.

42.
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Rostand, Jean

43.
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
Mill, John Stuart

44.
I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.
Davis, Michael

45.
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Buck, Pearl S.

46.
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

47.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
King Jr. Martin Luther

48.
What we do not understand, we cannot control.
Reich, Charles

49.
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

50.
'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.
Francis of Assisi, St.


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