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

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

James, Henry

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Carlyle, Thomas

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

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

Davis, Michael

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

Upanishads, Veda

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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 better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

France, Anatole

14.

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

Finley, Guy

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

Burke, James E.

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

Simpson, Homer

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

Goldman, Emma

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

Roth, Philip

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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 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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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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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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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

33.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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

Kafka, Franz

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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