Quotes about Understanding

"By lack of understanding they remained insane."
-George Orwell

"Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings."
-Lord Chesterfield

"Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand."
-Baruch Spinoza

"... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy."
-Dr. Carl Sagan

"You have to know the past to understand the present."
-Dr. Carl Sagan

"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

"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."
-Joanne Kathleen Rowling

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

"You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible."
-Anton Chekhov

"When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless."
-John Henry Newman

"The best candle is understanding."
-Welsh Proverb

"Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process."
-Ronald D. Dworkin

"It ain't just a question of misunderstood, Deep down inside him, he's no good."
-Stephen Sondheim

"I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation."
-William Irwin Thompson

"My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!"
-Anne Sullivan

"I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming."
-Katherine Mansfield

"Unless we remember we cannot understand."
-E. M. Forster

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
-Albert Einstein

"No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding."
-Plato

"In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane."
-George Orwell

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
-Carl Jung

"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
-Carl Jung

"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"I married Joyce Sours, who has always understood my love for music and my need to perform. I think that is the most important thing in any musician's life is to make sure you marry a woman who will be understanding of the time you will put in to the music."
-John F. Kennedy

"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding."
-Sir George Savile

"Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy."
-William Shakespeare

"Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism."
-Carl Sagan

"Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance."
-W. Clement Stone