Motivational Quotes

Understanding

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

5.

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

6.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

7.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

8.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

9.

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.

10.

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

Simpson, Homer

11.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

12.

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

Goldman, Emma

13.

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

Finley, Guy

14.

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

15.

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

Saying, Zen

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Mill, John Stuart

19.

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

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

22.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

23.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

24.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

25.

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

Rostand, Jean

26.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

27.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

28.

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

James, Henry

29.

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

Kafka, Franz

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

32.

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

Sinclair, Upton

33.

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

34.

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

France, Anatole

35.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

36.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

37.

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

Lewin, Kurt

38.

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

Augustine, St.

39.

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

Burke, James E.

40.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

42.

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

Davis, Michael

43.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

44.

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

45.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

46.

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

Upanishads, Veda

47.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas