Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

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

Burke, James E.

2.

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

Sinclair, Upton

3.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

4.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

5.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

6.

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

7.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

8.

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

9.

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

Fulbright, J. William

10.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

11.

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

Klassen, V. I.

12.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

13.

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

Upanishads, Veda

14.

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

Roth, Philip

15.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

16.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

17.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

21.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

22.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

23.

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

24.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

25.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

26.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

27.

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

Goldman, Emma

28.

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

Finley, Guy

29.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

31.

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

Simpson, Homer

32.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

33.

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

34.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

35.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

36.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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.

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

Augustine, St.

39.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

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.

41.

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

Rostand, Jean

42.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

43.

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

France, Anatole

44.

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

James, Henry

45.

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

Kafka, Franz

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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

Buck, Pearl S.