Understanding Quotes

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You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where… — Esther Hicks
Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them. — Joshua L. Liebman
Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways. — Jerome Bruner
Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success. — Robert Ringer
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. — Thomas Carlyle
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman. — John Stuart Mill
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. — Laozi
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… — Soren Kierkegaard
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. — Charles Kettering
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. — Samuel Johnson
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? — Philip Roth
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. — Jean Rostand
A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them. — Vernon Howard
I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself. — Princess Diana
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. — Thomas Hobbes
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… — William Hazlitt
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but… — Remy de Gourmont
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man of understanding finds everything laughable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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