Top # 100+ Understanding Quotes
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.”
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
“There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it”
“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
I’ll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
“Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them”
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
I understand people’s suffering, people’s pain, more than you will every know yourself.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
“Their lives are a lot different from ours. We want to gain an understanding of their daily lives”
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone’s help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.
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Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.
Egotist, noun. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
“If you understand everything, you must be misinformed”
“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, & the world around us.
I don’t understand you. You don’t understand me. What else do we have in common?
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday”
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.
“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
“There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight”
“Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
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You can’t go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can’t stop you from trying.
Everyone hears only what he understands.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
“Love is saying ‘I feel differently’ instead of ‘You’re wrong.’”
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.
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
“Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding”
“Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.”
Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.
You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.
“The purpose of computing is insight not numbers”
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure what you do not understand.
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view”
“To perceive is to suffer.”
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
One truly understands only what one can create.
“Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them”