Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Finley, Guy

Best Quotes about Understanding

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

France, Anatole

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

Upanishads, Veda

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Goldman, Emma

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

Lewin, Kurt

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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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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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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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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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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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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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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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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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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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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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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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 key to why things change is the key to everything.

Burke, James E.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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