Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Burke, James E.

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

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

Goldman, Emma

2.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

3.

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

4.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

5.

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

6.

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

Augustine, St.

7.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

8.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

9.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

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

Lewin, Kurt

11.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

12.

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

Fulbright, J. William

13.

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

14.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

15.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

16.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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.

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

19.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

20.

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

Saying, Zen

21.

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

22.

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

23.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

24.

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

25.

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

Simpson, Homer

26.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

27.

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

28.

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

Kafka, Franz

29.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

30.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

31.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

32.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

36.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

37.

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

38.

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

Burke, James E.

39.

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

Upanishads, Veda

40.

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

Sinclair, Upton

41.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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.

43.

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

France, Anatole

44.

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

Lao-Tzu

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Rostand, Jean

47.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

48.

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

Roth, Philip

49.

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

50.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von