Action Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

— Sun Yat-sen

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.

— Niels Bohr

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

If one does not act, one cannot understand.

— Chiang Kai-shek

Seek first to understand before being understood.

— J. Richard Clarke

Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion...

— Mason Cooley

By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first…

— Hilary Kornblith

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

— Anonymous

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

— Jerome Bruner

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

— Harold Evans

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

— T. S. Eliot

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

— Marvin Minsky