Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Saying, Zen

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

James, Henry

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Sinclair, Upton

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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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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

France, Anatole

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Coty, Rene

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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

Kopp, Sheldon

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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

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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

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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Davis, Michael

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

Goldman, Emma

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

Rostand, Jean

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Upanishads, Veda

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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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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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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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