Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Augustine, St.

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

Upanishads, Veda

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

James, Henry

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Klassen, V. I.

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

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

Goldman, Emma

10.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

11.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

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

France, Anatole

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Davis, Michael

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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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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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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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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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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 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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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Roth, Philip

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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.

32.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Simpson, Homer

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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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Understanding brings control.