Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

2.

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

Burke, James E.

3.

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

Goldman, Emma

4.

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

5.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

6.

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

Roth, Philip

7.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

8.

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

9.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

11.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

12.

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

13.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

14.

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

Rostand, Jean

15.

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

Mill, John Stuart

16.

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

France, Anatole

17.

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

18.

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

Kafka, Franz

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

Saying, Zen

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.

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

Simpson, Homer

25.

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

Davis, Michael

26.

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

Upanishads, Veda

27.

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

James, Henry

28.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

29.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

30.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

31.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

32.

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

Augustine, St.

33.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

34.

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

Sinclair, Upton

35.

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

Lao-Tzu

36.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

37.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

39.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

40.

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

41.

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

42.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

43.

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

Lewin, Kurt

44.

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

45.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

47.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

48.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

49.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

50.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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