Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

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

Lewin, Kurt

2.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

3.

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

Upanishads, Veda

4.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

5.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

6.

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

7.

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

Fulbright, J. William

8.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

9.

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

Mill, John Stuart

10.

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

Coty, Rene

11.

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

Sinclair, Upton

12.

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

Lao-Tzu

13.

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

Davis, Michael

14.

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

15.

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

Augustine, St.

16.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

17.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

18.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

19.

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

Finley, Guy

20.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

21.

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

22.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

23.

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

Rostand, Jean

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.

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

France, Anatole

26.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

28.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

30.

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

31.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

32.

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

Kafka, Franz

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

35.

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

36.

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

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.

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

Roth, Philip

39.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

40.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

41.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

42.

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

Saying, Zen

43.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

45.

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

46.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

47.

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

48.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

49.

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.

50.

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

Simpson, Homer