Motivational Quotes

Understanding

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

- Hobbes, Thomas

Best Quotes about Understanding

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Davis, Michael

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

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Burke, James E.

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

France, Anatole

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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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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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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

Roth, Philip

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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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

Goldman, Emma

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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 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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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Augustine, St.

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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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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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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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Simpson, Homer

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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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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 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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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