Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Klassen, V. I.

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

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

Lewin, Kurt

2.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Simpson, Homer

6.

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

Fulbright, J. William

7.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

8.

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

9.

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

Augustine, St.

10.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

12.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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

14.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

15.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

16.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

17.

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

Coty, Rene

18.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

19.

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

Kafka, Franz

20.

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

21.

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

Upanishads, Veda

22.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

23.

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

24.

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

Saying, Zen

25.

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

26.

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

Lao-Tzu

27.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

28.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

31.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

32.

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

33.

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

Davis, Michael

34.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

35.

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

Goldman, Emma

36.

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

37.

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

38.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

39.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Roth, Philip

41.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

42.

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

43.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

44.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

45.

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

Sinclair, Upton

46.

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

Burke, James E.

47.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

48.

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

James, Henry

49.

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

50.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.