Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

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Best Quotes about Understanding

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

James, Henry

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

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

Goldman, Emma

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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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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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And, most important, we have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.

Ornstein, Robert E.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Davis, Michael

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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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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Burke, James E.

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

Mill, John Stuart

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

Upanishads, Veda

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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To understand is to perceive patterns.