Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

2.

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

Rostand, Jean

3.

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

4.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Burke, James E.

8.

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

9.

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

Goldman, Emma

10.

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

Davis, Michael

11.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

12.

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

Finley, Guy

13.

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

Lao-Tzu

14.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

15.

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

Klassen, V. I.

16.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

17.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

18.

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

19.

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

Kafka, Franz

20.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

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

Saying, Zen

22.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

23.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

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

25.

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

Simpson, Homer

26.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

27.

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

28.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

29.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

30.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

31.

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

Roth, Philip

32.

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

Coty, Rene

33.

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.

34.

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

Fulbright, J. William

35.

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

Upanishads, Veda

36.

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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

38.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

39.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

41.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

42.

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

Lewin, Kurt

43.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

44.

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

Mill, John Stuart

45.

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

James, Henry

46.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

47.

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

48.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

49.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

50.

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

Augustine, St.