Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

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

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

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

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.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

10.

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

Simpson, Homer

11.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

12.

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

Upanishads, Veda

13.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

14.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Augustine, St.

15.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

17.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

18.

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

Fulbright, J. William

19.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

20.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

21.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

22.

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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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

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

Klassen, V. I.

25.

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

Coty, Rene

26.

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

Lao-Tzu

27.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

28.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

30.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

31.

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

32.

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

Roth, Philip

33.

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

34.

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

Kafka, Franz

35.

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

Burke, James E.

36.

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

Goldman, Emma

37.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

40.

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

41.

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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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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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

44.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

45.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

46.

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

Finley, Guy

49.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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