Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Mill, John Stuart

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Goldman, Emma

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

Fulbright, J. William

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

Rostand, Jean

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

France, Anatole

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lewin, Kurt

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

15.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

16.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

17.

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

Augustine, St.

18.

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 a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow men.

Mcgranahan, Norvin

20.

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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Kafka, Franz

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

24.

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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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

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

Upanishads, Veda

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

30.

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

Roth, Philip

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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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

37.

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

Coty, Rene

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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

43.

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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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther