Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Davis, Michael

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

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

Coty, Rene

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Rostand, Jean

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Davis, Michael

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Goldman, Emma

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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

Simpson, Homer

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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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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

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

France, Anatole

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