Motivational Quotes

Understanding

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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Best Quotes about Understanding

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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

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

France, Anatole

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Finley, Guy

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

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Coty, Rene

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Burke, James E.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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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 noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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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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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Roth, Philip

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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

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

Saying, Zen

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

Goldman, Emma

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Sinclair, Upton

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

Simpson, Homer

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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