Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

France, Anatole

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

What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

Goldman, Emma

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

Buck, Pearl S.

10.

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

11.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

13.

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

15.

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

Fulbright, J. William

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

18.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

19.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Finley, Guy

21.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Coty, Rene

26.

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

27.

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

28.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

29.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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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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

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

Simpson, Homer

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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

35.

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

Klassen, V. I.

36.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

37.

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

Augustine, St.

38.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Burke, James E.

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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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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

46.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.