Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

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.

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

Simpson, Homer

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Burke, James E.

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Lewin, Kurt

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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 nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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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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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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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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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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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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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

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

Upanishads, Veda

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

Finley, Guy

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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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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Coty, Rene

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

Fulbright, J. William

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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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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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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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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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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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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.