Motivational Quotes

Understanding

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

Saying, Zen

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Davis, Michael

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goldman, Emma

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

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.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

12.

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

France, Anatole

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

Burke, James E.

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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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

17.

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

18.

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

Roth, Philip

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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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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

22.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

34.

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

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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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 key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Upanishads, Veda

45.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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Man know much more than he understands.