Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

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.

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Goldman, Emma

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Kopp, Sheldon

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Coty, Rene

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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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

25.

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

France, Anatole

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

Simpson, Homer

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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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

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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

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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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

Burke, James E.

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

Augustine, St.

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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.