Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Upanishads, Veda

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

2.

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

Lewin, Kurt

3.

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

Rostand, Jean

4.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

5.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

6.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

12.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

13.

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

Simpson, Homer

14.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

15.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

16.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

17.

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

Upanishads, Veda

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

20.

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

Sinclair, Upton

21.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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.

23.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

24.

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

25.

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

Davis, Michael

26.

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

27.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

28.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

29.

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

30.

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

Lao-Tzu

31.

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

Finley, Guy

32.

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

33.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

34.

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

Kafka, Franz

35.

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

Goldman, Emma

36.

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

James, Henry

37.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

39.

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

Klassen, V. I.

40.

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

Burke, James E.

41.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

42.

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