Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Mill, John Stuart

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

France, Anatole

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Sinclair, Upton

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Klassen, V. I.

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

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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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

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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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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Goldman, Emma

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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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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mill, John Stuart

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Roth, Philip

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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 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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Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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

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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 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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Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

Seng-Ts'an

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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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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