Understanding Quotes

54 quotations about Understanding
I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.
Princess of Wales Diana · Understanding
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein · Understanding
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Understanding
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie E. Eschenbach · Understanding
You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Guy Finley · Understanding
There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle · Understanding
It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
Anatole France · Understanding
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Nikki Giovanni · Understanding
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Understanding
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Understanding
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
Emma Goldman · Understanding
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Emma Goldman · Understanding
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes · Understanding
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
Vernon Howard · Understanding
We are slaves to whatever we don't understand
Vernon Howard · Understanding
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard · Understanding
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Samuel Johnson · Understanding
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Jung · Understanding
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka · Understanding
No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
V. I. Klassen · Understanding
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao-Tzu · Understanding
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper Lee · Understanding
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin · Understanding
Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
Source Unknown · Understanding
The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself
Source Unknown · Understanding

Authors on Understanding

Alfred Adler St. Augustine Sir James M. Barrie Charles Baudelaire Sir Isaiah Berlin Bonewitz Pearl S. Buck James E. Burke Rene Coty Stephen R. Covey Leonardo Da Vinci Michael Davis Princess of Wales Diana Albert Einstein Ralph Waldo Emerson Marie E. Eschenbach Guy Finley Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle Anatole France Nikki Giovanni