Understanding Quotes

Much learning does not teach understanding. (Heraclitus)
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. View quote
Richard Feynman
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. View quote
Upton Sinclair
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. View quote
Stephen Hawking
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. View quote
Immanuel Kant
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! View quote
Richard Feynman
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. View quote
Carl Jung
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. (James Meade)
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. View quote
Anthony Robbins
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. View quote
Helen Keller
Understanding is a two-way street. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. View quote
Albert Einstein
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. View quote
George Soros
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. View quote
Edith Wharton
Our understanding is correlative to our perception. View quote
Robert Delaunay
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out ... and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. View quote
A. E. Housman
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. (Charles Kettering)
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind. View quote
Rockwell Kent
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. View quote
John Lennon
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. View quote
Edward Gibbon
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. View quote
Edmund Burke
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