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It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.
- Upanishads, Veda
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Best Quotes about Understanding

1.
I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.
Davis, Michael

2.
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand
Howard, Vernon

3.
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

4.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really understand them is bad morals.
James, Henry

5.
In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
Fulbright, J. William

6.
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

7.
To understand is to perceive patterns.
Berlin, Sir Isaiah

8.
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
Mill, John Stuart

9.
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao-Tzu

10.
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

11.
No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
Klassen, V. I.

12.
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Buck, Pearl S.

13.
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
Carlyle, Thomas

14.
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
Roth, Philip

15.
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

16.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

17.
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

18.
Return to the root and you will find the meaning.
Seng-Ts'an

19.
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

20.
UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

21.
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, SĀ°ren

22.
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Kettering, Charles F.

23.
The key to why things change is the key to everything.
Burke, James E.

24.
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

25.
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Lewin, Kurt

26.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Simpson, Homer

27.
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

28.
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

29.
Understanding brings control.
Bonewitz

30.
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
Howard, Vernon

31.
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

32.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Sinclair, Upton

33.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Kafka, Franz

34.
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Giovanni, Nikki

35.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Hobbes, Thomas

36.
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

37.
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Stevenson, Adlai E.

38.
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

39.
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Hubbard, Elbert

41.
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
King Jr. Martin Luther

42.
Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

43.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Covey, Stephen R.

44.
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

45.
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Augustine, St.

46.
What we do not understand, we cannot control.
Reich, Charles

47.
I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.
Diana, Princess of Wales

48.
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

49.
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

50.
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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