Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

2.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

3.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

4.

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

5.

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

6.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

7.

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

Fulbright, J. William

8.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

9.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

10.

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

Lewin, Kurt

11.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Augustine, St.

13.

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

Rostand, Jean

14.

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

Finley, Guy

15.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

16.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.

Saying, Zen

19.

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

20.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

21.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

22.

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

Goldman, Emma

23.

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

24.

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

25.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

26.

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

27.

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

Mill, John Stuart

28.

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

29.

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

Davis, Michael

30.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

31.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

32.

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

Klassen, V. I.

33.

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

France, Anatole

34.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

35.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

36.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Sinclair, Upton

37.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

38.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

39.

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

40.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

41.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

42.

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

Burke, James E.

43.

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

Kafka, Franz

44.

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

45.

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

James, Henry

46.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

47.

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

Coty, Rene

48.

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

49.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

50.

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