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Understanding

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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Best Quotes about Understanding

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.

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

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

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

Kafka, Franz

'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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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

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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Klassen, V. I.

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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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

France, Anatole

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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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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

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Finley, Guy

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Kopp, Sheldon

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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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

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goldman, Emma

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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