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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
Understanding Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Understanding

1.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Covey, Stephen R.

2.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Kafka, Franz

3.
Understanding brings control.
Bonewitz

4.
What we do not understand, we cannot control.
Reich, Charles

5.
Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.
Lewis, Beca

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 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

8.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Peale, Norman Vincent

9.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really understand them is bad morals.
James, Henry

10.
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

11.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
Saying, Zen

12.
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Lewin, Kurt

13.
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.

14.
It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
Coty, Rene

15.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

16.
The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
Kopp, Sheldon

17.
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

18.
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Giovanni, Nikki

19.
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

20.
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
Rostand, Jean

21.
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

22.
No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
Klassen, V. I.

23.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Hobbes, Thomas

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

26.
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Goldman, Emma

27.
Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

28.
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

29.
Return to the root and you will find the meaning.
Seng-Ts'an

30.
I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.
Davis, Michael

31.
The key to why things change is the key to everything.
Burke, James E.

32.
'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.
Francis of Assisi, St.

33.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Da Vinci, Leonardo

34.
Man know much more than he understands.
Adler, Alfred

35.
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Buck, Pearl S.

36.
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Finley, Guy

37.
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

38.
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
Mill, John Stuart

39.
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao-Tzu

40.
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

41.
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
Roth, Philip

42.
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.
Kierkegaard, SĀ°ren

43.
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Augustine, St.

44.
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

45.
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

47.
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand
Howard, Vernon

48.
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

49.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

50.
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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