Understanding is important than knowledge and learning. To do something first one has to understand that. When you understand the job, half is done. Understandings are also important in relations. Both in personal and social relations there should be understanding. This is a collection of 100+ Understanding quotes.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. Leonardo da Vinci
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or
malicious. Phillips Brooks
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Mahatma
Gandhi
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Khalil Gibran
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure
one, the soul. Minna Antrim
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Mahatma
Gandhi
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and
mutual valuing. Rollo May
The development of language is part of the development of the personality,
for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing
understanding between people. Maria Montessori
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding
of ourselves. Carl Jung
Understanding is a two-way street. Eleanor Roosevelt
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something
is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. Michael J. Fox
Successful negotiation is not about getting to 'yes'; it's about mastering
'no' and understanding what the path to an agreement is. Christopher Voss
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase
of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. John
Locke
Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being. Marina
Abramovic
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief
or ignorance. W. Clement Stone
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than
absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It
will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge
your vocabulary. J. K. Rowling
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the
understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it
is as it is and why it exists at all. Stephen Hawking
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good.
Understanding is joyous. Carl Sagan
Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause
harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.
Lobsang Tenzin
Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure
that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they
deserve. Kate Middleton
When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding
comes love. Jiddu Krishnamurti
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.
Alice Dreger
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and
understanding. Marshall McLuhan
We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that
we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the
opposite of success, it's part of success. Arianna Huffington
Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or
fail. Henry Petroski
Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those
all to be very sharp tools in my shed. CeeLo Green
Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of
the problems we encounter. Thich Nhat Hanh
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide
a universal understanding of a personal experience. Mae Jemison
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary
depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to
understanding the problems of running a country. Margaret Thatcher
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a
basic understanding of how the world works. Carl Sagan
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in
life. Our band is good at understanding that equation. Bruce Springsteen
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our
errors about it. Errol Morris
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. William
James
Understanding the long, sordid history of gun control in America is key to
understanding the dangers of disarming. Niger Innis
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. Douglas
MacArthur
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding
what is the interest of the individual. Jeremy Bentham
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the
whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Muhammad Iqbal
The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough
to know which looks will work for you and which probably won't. Stacy London
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our
ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence. Robert
Andrews Millikan
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming
from reason and imagination, rarely. Marcus Aurelius
If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not
the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to
understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady! Mr. T
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light
for understanding and awareness. Jim Rohn
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess,
depends on understanding and valuing differences. John Ortberg
Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not
understanding, understanding is not wisdom. Clifford Stoll
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding. Burt Rutan
For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of
everything. Kenneth Noland
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of
a problem. Jiddu Krishnamurti
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which
alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. Rene
Descartes
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is
understanding. Winifred Holtby
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
Marquis de Sade
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
J. Michael Straczynski
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you
are. Oprah Winfrey
Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding
of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it. Carmen Agra Deedy
Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we
collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale. Tan Le
Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying
oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put
ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings. Richard
Eyre
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to
compassion and understanding. Erma Bombeck
Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an
engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about
understanding how things break or fail. Henry Petroski
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the
end of your days. Lao Tzu
Diversity means understanding. Stuart Scott
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of
the understanding. John Locke
Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding
of it. Glenn Beck
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. Friedrich
August von Hayek
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing
one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. Chin-Ning Chu
The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most
important undertakings of our lives. Helen Mirren
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. Albert Einstein
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance
can there be recovery. J.K. Rowling
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding
of ourselves. C.G. Jung
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. Marie Curie
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Marie Curie
Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one. Marvin J.
Ashton
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to
know what things don't mean. Bob Dylan
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary
depends on his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't
exist. Madeleine L'Engle
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring
us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. Dalai Lama XIV
I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not
understand me. Elizabeth Gaskell
If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it
with an explanation. Haruki Murakami
Why should things be easy to understand? Thomas Pynchon
True love is born from understanding. Gautama Buddha
There's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And
understanding someone else. Brad Meltze
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to
understand. Alain de Botton
Kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless. Shannon L.
Alder
87. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy. Carl Sagan
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands
what will sell. Confucius
Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand
it. Kristin Cashore
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the
understanding which bringeth peace. Helen Keller
We understand more than we know. Margaret Atwood
One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding. Malcolm X
You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding.
Reading will make you free. Paul Rand
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people
who speak the truth. E.M. Forster
We always vilify what we don't understand. Nenia Campbell
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you
do not understand is a defect. Lao Tzu
Understanding is not absolutely final. What's now right could be wrong
later. Toba Beta
Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in
the rearview mirror. Ron Hall
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting,
sculpture. Louis L'Amour
I can always forgive where I understand. Jude Morgan
Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means
to throw away your knowledge. Thich Nhat Hanh
A perfect love is not all about devotion and loyalty, it is understanding
little tiny things. M.F. Moonzajer
