Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

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Best Quotes about Understanding

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Simpson, Homer

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

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

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

Klassen, V. I.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Sinclair, Upton

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Upanishads, Veda

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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lewin, Kurt

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

Davis, Michael

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goldman, Emma

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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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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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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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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