Motivational Quotes

Understanding

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

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

France, Anatole

2.

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.

3.

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

Fulbright, J. William

4.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

6.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

7.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

8.

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

9.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

10.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

11.

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

Lao-Tzu

12.

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

Roth, Philip

13.

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

Klassen, V. I.

14.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

15.

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

16.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

17.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

18.

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

19.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

20.

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

Kafka, Franz

21.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

22.

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

Lewin, Kurt

23.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Davis, Michael

25.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

26.

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

Saying, Zen

27.

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

Finley, Guy

28.

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

29.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

31.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

32.

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

33.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

35.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

36.

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

37.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

38.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

39.

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

40.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

41.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

42.

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

Sinclair, Upton

43.

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

44.

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

Coty, Rene

45.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

46.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

47.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

48.

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

Mill, John Stuart

49.

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

James, Henry

50.

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

Burke, James E.

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