Understanding Quotes

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.

Johann von Goethe

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Sir Isaiah Berlin

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

Friedrich Nietzsche

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

James Russell Lowell

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe, that thou mayest understand.

Saint Augustine of Hippo, Ioanni

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Vernon Howard

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Vernon Howard

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

Nikki Giovanni

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely -- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.

Sheldon Kopp

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Oscar Wilde

Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality.

Steve Maraboli

The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

Professor William Buechner

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie E. Eschenbach

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word meaning it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Homer

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when the man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

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.

Soren Kierkegaard

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!

Henry David Thoreau

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

Rene Coty