Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Burke, James E.

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

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

Rostand, Jean

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

10.

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

Coty, Rene

11.

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 key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

13.

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

Upanishads, Veda

14.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

15.

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

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

Simpson, Homer

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

Kettering, Charles F.

18.

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.

19.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

20.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

21.

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

Goldman, Emma

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

Roth, Philip

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Lao-Tzu

27.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

28.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

30.

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

Lewin, Kurt

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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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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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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

36.

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

Davis, Michael

37.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

40.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Kafka, Franz

45.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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