Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

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

Burke, James E.

2.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

3.

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

Lewin, Kurt

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

7.

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

Goldman, Emma

8.

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

Upanishads, Veda

9.

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

Klassen, V. I.

10.

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

Coty, Rene

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

14.

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

15.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

16.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

17.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

18.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

19.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

20.

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

Kafka, Franz

21.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

23.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

Simpson, Homer

25.

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

26.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

31.

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

James, Henry

32.

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

33.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

34.

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

35.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

36.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

37.

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.

38.

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

Mill, John Stuart

39.

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

40.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

41.

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

Davis, Michael

42.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

43.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!