Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Kopp, Sheldon

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Roth, Philip

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

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

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

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Lewin, Kurt

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Upanishads, Veda

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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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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

France, Anatole

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

Fulbright, J. William

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davis, Michael

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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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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

Klassen, V. I.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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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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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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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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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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

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

Saying, Zen

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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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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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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