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

1.

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

Simpson, Homer

2.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

3.

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

4.

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

Coty, Rene

5.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

6.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

7.

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

8.

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

Rostand, Jean

9.

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

Finley, Guy

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Augustine, St.

14.

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

15.

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

Davis, Michael

16.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

17.

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

18.

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

Upanishads, Veda

19.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

20.

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

Klassen, V. I.

21.

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

22.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

24.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

25.

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

Mill, John Stuart

26.

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

Saying, Zen

27.

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

Kafka, Franz

28.

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

29.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

30.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

31.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

32.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

37.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

38.

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.

39.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

40.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

41.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

42.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

43.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

44.

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

45.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

46.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

47.

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

Goldman, Emma

48.

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

Lewin, Kurt

49.

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

50.

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

France, Anatole