Motivational Quotes

Understanding

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

- Hobbes, Thomas

Best Quotes about Understanding

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Coty, Rene

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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 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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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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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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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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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

Goldman, Emma

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Finley, Guy

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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

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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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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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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

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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

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

France, Anatole

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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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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

Augustine, St.

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

Davis, Michael

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

Simpson, Homer

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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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