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

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

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Lewin, Kurt

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Saying, Zen

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Simpson, Homer

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

Davis, Michael

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

Augustine, St.

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

Burke, James E.

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

Goldman, Emma

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

Upanishads, Veda

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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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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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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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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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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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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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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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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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

France, Anatole

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von