Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Kopp, Sheldon

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.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

France, Anatole

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Roth, Philip

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

Upanishads, Veda

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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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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.

Klassen, V. I.

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

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

Goldman, Emma

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Simpson, Homer

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

43.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

James, Henry

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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To understand is to perceive patterns.