Quotes about understanding

"Man know much more than he understands."

Adler, Alfred on understanding
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"Yearn to understand first and to be understood second."

Lewis, Beca on understanding
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"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."

Augustine, St. on understanding
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"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."

Barrie, Sir James M. on understanding
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"The world only goes round by misunderstanding."

Baudelaire, Charles on understanding   

"To understand is to perceive patterns."

Berlin, Sir Isaiah on understanding
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"Understanding brings control."

Bonewitz on understanding
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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 on understanding   

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

Buck, Pearl S. on understanding
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"The key to why things change is the key to everything."

Burke, James E. on understanding
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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 on understanding   

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

Carlyle, Thomas on understanding
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"If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on understanding
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"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on understanding   

"It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything."

Coty, Rene on understanding
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"Seek first to understand and then to be understood."

Covey, Stephen R. on understanding
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"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on understanding
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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on understanding
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"I started out with nothing. I still have most of it."

Davis, Michael on understanding
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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 on understanding
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"I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself."

Diana, Princess of Wales on understanding   

"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 on understanding   

"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 on understanding
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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

Einstein, Albert on understanding
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"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on understanding   

"In youth we learn; in age we understand."

Eschenbach, Marie E. on understanding
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"You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding."

Finley, Guy on understanding
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"There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women."

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier on understanding   

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

France, Anatole on understanding
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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 on understanding   

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

Giovanni, Nikki on understanding
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"Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on understanding   

"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 on understanding
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"The man of understanding finds everything laughable."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on understanding
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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 on understanding
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"The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another."

Goldman, Emma on understanding
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"Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another."

Goldman, Emma on understanding   

"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 on understanding   

"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 on understanding   

"Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech."

Hobbes, Thomas on understanding