Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

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

James, Henry

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

Kettering, Charles F.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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, S°ren

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Augustine, St.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Goldman, Emma

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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

Fulbright, J. William

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

Finley, Guy

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

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

France, Anatole

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

Kafka, Franz