Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

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Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Peale, Norman Vincent

2.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

3.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Buck, Pearl S.

4.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

5.

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

6.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

7.

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

France, Anatole

8.

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

9.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

11.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

12.

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.

13.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

14.

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

Goldman, Emma

15.

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

16.

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

Mill, John Stuart

17.

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

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

Augustine, St.

19.

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

20.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

21.

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

22.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

23.

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

24.

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.

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

26.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

27.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

28.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

31.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

32.

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

Saying, Zen

33.

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

Kafka, Franz

34.

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

Klassen, V. I.

35.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

36.

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

37.

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

38.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

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