Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

2.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

3.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

4.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

5.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

6.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

7.

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

Upanishads, Veda

8.

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

James, Henry

9.

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

Kafka, Franz

10.

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

Simpson, Homer

11.

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

12.

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

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.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

18.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

19.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

21.

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

Roth, Philip

22.

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

23.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

24.

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

25.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

26.

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

Mill, John Stuart

27.

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

Finley, Guy

28.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

29.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

Fulbright, J. William

31.

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

Sinclair, Upton

32.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

33.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

34.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

35.

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

36.

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

Klassen, V. I.

37.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

38.

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

Lewin, Kurt

39.

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

Burke, James E.

40.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

41.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

42.

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

Goldman, Emma

43.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

44.

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

45.

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

Lao-Tzu

46.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

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

Davis, Michael

48.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

49.

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

50.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca