Understanding Quotes

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Thomas Hobbes

God is the name we give to the science we don't understand. Science is the name we give to the God we don't understand.

Steve Maraboli

She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear.

Terry Pratchett

When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to understand his fellow men.

Norvin Mcgranahan

Trzymajcie si? z dala od cz?owieka, który pracowa? w pocie czo?a nad rozwi?zaniem jakiej? zagadki, rozwi?za? j? i stwierdzi?, ?e nie jest m?drzejszy ni? przedtem - powiada Bokonon. - Przepe?nia go bowiem mordercza pogarda do ludzi, którzy s? równie g?upi jak on, ale nie doszli do swojej g?upoty równie ci??k? prac?.

Kurt Vonnegut

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Aristotle

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

Jodi Picoult

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,Men were deceivers ever,-One foot in sea and one on shore,To one thing constant never.

William Shakespeare

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Jonathan Swift

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.

William Hazlitt

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

John Stuart Mill

Understanding is a two-way street.

Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

J. William Fulbright

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.

William Shakespeare

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Stephen Covey

Return to the root and you will find the meaning.

SengTs'an

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

Samuel Johnson

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Abraham Lincoln

Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.

Steve Maraboli