Motivational Quotes

Understanding

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

- Seng-Ts'an

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

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

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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

James, Henry

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

Sinclair, Upton

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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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 to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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

Lao-Tzu

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

France, Anatole

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Rostand, Jean

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Coty, Rene

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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

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

Davis, Michael

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

Saying, Zen

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Finley, Guy

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

Goldman, Emma

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

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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

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

Burke, James E.

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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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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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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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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 noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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.