Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

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

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Rostand, Jean

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Davis, Michael

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

Lewin, Kurt

13.

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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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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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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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 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 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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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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

Burke, James E.

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

Goldman, Emma

23.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Roth, Philip

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

32.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

33.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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

Upanishads, Veda

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

43.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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

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

France, Anatole

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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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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