Motivational Quotes

Understanding

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Augustine, St.

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

Simpson, Homer

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

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

Burke, James E.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

Coty, Rene

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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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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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

France, Anatole

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

25.

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

Lewin, Kurt

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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

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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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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

Goldman, Emma

30.

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

Upanishads, Veda

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

Davis, Michael

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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 does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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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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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.