Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

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

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

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

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kafka, Franz

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.

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

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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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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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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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

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Goldman, Emma

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Upanishads, Veda

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Roth, Philip

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

Fulbright, J. William

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

21.

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

Burke, James 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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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

France, Anatole

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

Augustine, St.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

33.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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 does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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

Finley, Guy

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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 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

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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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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

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!