Motivational Quotes

Understanding

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Lao-Tzu

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

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

Finley, Guy

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

James, Henry

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Mill, John Stuart

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

Burke, James E.

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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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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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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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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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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

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 brings control.

Bonewitz

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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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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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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Coty, Rene

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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 man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Goldman, Emma

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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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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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

Kafka, Franz

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

France, Anatole

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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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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Augustine, St.

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Upanishads, Veda