Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Coty, Rene

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

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

Roth, Philip

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Kettering, Charles F.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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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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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

Burke, James E.

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

Simpson, Homer

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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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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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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Davis, Michael

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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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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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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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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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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Rostand, Jean

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 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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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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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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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Goldman, Emma

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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