Motivational Quotes

Understanding

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

2.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

3.

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

Augustine, St.

4.

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

Sinclair, Upton

5.

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

Upanishads, Veda

6.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Goldman, Emma

10.

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

11.

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

Klassen, V. I.

12.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

13.

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

14.

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

Burke, James E.

15.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

16.

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

Roth, Philip

17.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

18.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

19.

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

Finley, Guy

20.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

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

Kafka, Franz

23.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

26.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

28.

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

France, Anatole

29.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Davis, Michael

33.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

34.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

35.

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

James, Henry

36.

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

37.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

41.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

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.

43.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

44.

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

Saying, Zen

45.

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

46.

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