Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Understanding

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Finley, Guy

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Kafka, Franz

13.

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

14.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

15.

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

Lao-Tzu

16.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

17.

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

France, Anatole

18.

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

Coty, Rene

19.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

20.

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

Sinclair, Upton

21.

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

Rostand, Jean

22.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

23.

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

Fulbright, J. William

24.

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

25.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

26.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

James, Henry

28.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

29.

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

Simpson, Homer

30.

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

31.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Davis, Michael

35.

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

Mill, John Stuart

36.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

37.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

38.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

39.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

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

Goldman, Emma

41.

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

42.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

43.

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

Lewin, Kurt

44.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

45.

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

Augustine, St.

46.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

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

Roth, Philip

48.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

49.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

50.

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

Burke, James E.

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