Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Goldman, Emma

Best Quotes about Understanding

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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

Sinclair, Upton

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Burke, James E.

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

Upanishads, Veda

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

France, Anatole

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

Davis, Michael

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Simpson, Homer

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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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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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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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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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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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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

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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

Roth, Philip

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

James, Henry

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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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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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 want truly to understand something, try to change it.

Lewin, Kurt

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

Coty, Rene

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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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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.