Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Simpson, Homer

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Augustine, St.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

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

Kopp, Sheldon

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

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

Lewin, Kurt

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

Saying, Zen

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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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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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Goldman, Emma

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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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

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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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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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