Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

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Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Kopp, Sheldon

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

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

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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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

Upanishads, Veda

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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

France, Anatole

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

Fulbright, J. William

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

Davis, Michael

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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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Goldman, Emma

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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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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Burke, James E.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Simpson, Homer

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Rostand, Jean

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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