Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Understanding

Understanding

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.--Helen Rowland (The Sayings of Mrs. Solomon: Being the Confessions of the Seven-Hundredth Wife)
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.--Mohandas Gandhi
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.--Albert Einstein
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses not his understanding but rather his memory.--Leonardo da Vinci
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.--Anonymous
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.--Og Mandino
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.--Carl Sagan (Broca's Brain)
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.--Winifred Holtby (Testament of Friendship by Brittain)
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress.--Bertrand Russell
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.--Isaac Watts
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.--Richard Bach
Don't write merely to be understood. Write so that you cannot possibly be misunderstood.--Robert Louis Stevenson
Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding.--Joan Chittister (The Breath of the Soul: Reflections on Prayer)
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.--Marcus Aurelius
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.--Carl Jung
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.--Albert Camus (The Plague)
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.--Henri L Bergson
For in the end,
We will conserve only what we love,
We will love only what we understand,
We will understand only what we are taught.--Baba Dioum
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.-- Joanna Field
I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.--Chinese proverb
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.--Robert McCloskey
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.--Vincent Van Gogh
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.--Loretta Girzartis
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.--Jean Kerr (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.--Albert Einstein (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
In the end, life is not about who won the race. It's about who understood that life is not a race.--Kevin Keenoo
In youth we learn; in age we understand.--Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Instead of condemning people, try to understand them. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain--and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.--Lawrence G. Lovasik (The Hidden Power of Kindness)
It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.--Charles The Bold
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.--Anthony Robbins
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.--Marge Piercy
The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.--Guy Finely
Man is always inclined to be intolerant towards the thing, or person, he hasn't taken the time adequately to understand...--Robert R. Brown
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.--Jacob Brownowski
The moment people see they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.--David Burns
Much learning does not teach understanding.--Philip Wheelwright
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.--Aaron Burr
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.--Marie Curie
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.--George Soros
One learns people through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.--Mark Twain ("What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" North American Review January 1895)
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
People on the whole are very simpleminded in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than not, the things their leaders tell them.--Pearl S. Buck
The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say.--Kahlil Gibran
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.--Vannevar Bush (Science is Not Enough)
The situation of the world is still like this. People completely identify with one side, one ideology.... Reconciliation is to understand both sides, to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then to go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side. Doing only that will be a great help for peace.--Thich Nhat Hanh
The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.--John Romano, M.D
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.--Doris Lessing
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.--Edward Abbey ("Down the River with Henry Thoreau" Words from the Land)
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.--Eric Hoffer
Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden...--Phaedrus
Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little.--Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (Aphorisms)
To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.--Mortimer Adler
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.--Ellen Goodman
Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.--Dee Hock
Understanding is knowing what to do; wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is actually doing it.--Tristan Gylberd
Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.--Marya Mannes (More in Anger)
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.--Anna Jameson (A Commonplace Book)
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but by then we realize it and admit it.--Jules Renard (Journal)
We shall light a candle of understanding in our hearts which shall not be put out.--Jewish Proverb
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.--Henry David Thoreau
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.--Robert Southey
When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the language of the first.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce.
Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument.
That is my experience.
If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.--Thich Nhat Hahn
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive shortwave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.--Robert M. Hutchins