Motivational Quotes

Understanding

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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Best Quotes about Understanding

1.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

3.

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

4.

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

Saying, Zen

5.

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

6.

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

Davis, Michael

7.

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

Roth, Philip

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

10.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

11.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

12.

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

13.

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

Finley, Guy

14.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

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

16.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Klassen, V. I.

22.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

23.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

24.

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

25.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

26.

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

27.

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

Coty, Rene

28.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

29.

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

30.

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

Rostand, Jean

31.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

32.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

33.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

34.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

35.

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

36.

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

37.

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

38.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

39.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

40.

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

Fulbright, J. William

41.

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

Augustine, St.

42.

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

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

43.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

44.

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

Burke, James E.

45.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

46.

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

Goldman, Emma

47.

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

Upanishads, Veda

48.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

49.

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

50.

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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