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

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

Fulbright, J. William

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

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

Goldman, Emma

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Roth, Philip

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Saying, Zen

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

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

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

The fact that you are willing to say, I do not understand, and it is fine, is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Dyer, Wayne

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Simpson, Homer

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

Mill, John Stuart

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

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

Augustine, St.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

Klassen, V. I.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

France, Anatole

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Coty, Rene

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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