Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Burke, James E.

No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.

Klassen, V. I.

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

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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 man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really understand them is bad morals.

James, Henry

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

France, Anatole

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

Goldman, Emma

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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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 a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Finley, Guy

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Davis, Michael

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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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 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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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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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

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Simpson, Homer

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

Coty, Rene

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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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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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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