Motivational Quotes

Understanding

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

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

Upanishads, Veda

2.

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

Lewin, Kurt

3.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

4.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

5.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

6.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

7.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

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

9.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

10.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

15.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

16.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

17.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

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

Davis, Michael

19.

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

Augustine, St.

20.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

21.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

22.

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

Kafka, Franz

23.

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

Simpson, Homer

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Goldman, Emma

27.

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

28.

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

Roth, Philip

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Mill, John Stuart

31.

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

32.

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

Lao-Tzu

33.

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

34.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

35.

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

36.

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

Klassen, V. I.

37.

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.

38.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

39.

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

James, Henry

40.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

41.

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

Saying, Zen

42.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

43.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

44.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

45.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

46.

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

47.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

48.

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

49.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

50.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.