Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Simpson, Homer

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

2.

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

Lewin, Kurt

3.

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

4.

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

Burke, James E.

5.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

6.

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

Davis, Michael

7.

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

8.

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

France, Anatole

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

James, Henry

12.

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

Saying, Zen

13.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

15.

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

16.

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

Upanishads, Veda

17.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

18.

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

19.

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

Finley, Guy

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Klassen, V. I.

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

25.

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

26.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

27.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

28.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

29.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

30.

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

Roth, Philip

31.

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

Kafka, Franz

32.

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

Sinclair, Upton

33.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

34.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

37.

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

Goldman, Emma

38.

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

39.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

40.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

41.

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

Rostand, Jean

42.

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

Fulbright, J. William

43.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

44.

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

Coty, Rene

45.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

46.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

47.

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

48.

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

Augustine, St.

49.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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