Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Simpson, Homer

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

2.

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

Simpson, Homer

3.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

4.

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

France, Anatole

5.

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

Sinclair, Upton

6.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

7.

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

8.

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

Rostand, Jean

9.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

10.

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

11.

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

Lao-Tzu

12.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

13.

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

Fulbright, J. William

14.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

17.

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

Finley, Guy

18.

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

19.

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

Goldman, Emma

20.

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

Burke, James E.

21.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

22.

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

Coty, Rene

23.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

25.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

26.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

27.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

28.

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

29.

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

James, Henry

30.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

31.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Lewin, Kurt

33.

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

Saying, Zen

34.

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

35.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

36.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

38.

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

39.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

40.

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

Klassen, V. I.

41.

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

Augustine, St.

42.

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

43.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

44.

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

Davis, Michael

45.

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

46.

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

Mill, John Stuart

47.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

48.

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

Roth, Philip

49.

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

50.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.