Motivational Quotes

Understanding

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

- Buck, Pearl S.

Best Quotes about Understanding

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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Understanding brings control.

Bonewitz

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

Upanishads, Veda

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

Saying, Zen

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

Mill, John Stuart

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Berlin, Sir Isaiah

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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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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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The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

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

Lewin, Kurt

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

Goldman, Emma

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What we do not understand, we cannot control.

Reich, Charles

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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Howard, Vernon

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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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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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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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Man know much more than he understands.

Adler, Alfred

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Understanding is a two-way street.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 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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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.

Lewis, Beca

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Kafka, Franz

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