Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Fulbright, J. William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Simpson, Homer

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

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Davis, Michael

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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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 one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Upanishads, Veda

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

France, Anatole

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

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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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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

33.

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

Roth, Philip

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

Goldman, Emma

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Coty, Rene

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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.