Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Roth, Philip

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

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

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kafka, Franz

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sinclair, Upton

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

James, Henry

10.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Augustine, St.

14.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

18.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

19.

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

Fulbright, J. William

20.

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

Lao-Tzu

21.

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

Lewin, Kurt

22.

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

Saying, Zen

23.

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.

24.

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

Finley, Guy

25.

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

26.

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

Klassen, V. I.

27.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

28.

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

Burke, James E.

29.

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

Coty, Rene

30.

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

31.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

33.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

34.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

35.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

37.

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

38.

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

France, Anatole

39.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

40.

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

Roth, Philip

41.

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

42.

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

Goldman, Emma

43.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

44.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

45.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

46.

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

47.

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

Rostand, Jean

48.

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

Mill, John Stuart

49.

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

Simpson, Homer

50.

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

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