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The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit. By Wayne Dyer Understand Fine Exhibit Fact Greatest

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavorsis not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward. By Alan Kay Understanding Happiness Music Civilization Science

When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant. By Maria Edgeworth Explaining Meant Driven Necessity Found

It takes understanding to be outstanding By Pastor Simeon Nwani Outstanding Understanding

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. By Albert Einstein Grandmother Understand Explain

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside. By Zhuangzi Understand Profound Shallow Inside

Understanding requires our own observation. Solutions frequently come in the form of mental pictures. The only prescription is to get out and use our eyes to see how things work. By David Sturt Understanding Observation Requires Solutions Pictures

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Easy World Person Understand

Understanding is my secret weapon. By Gabriel Justice Understanding Weapon Secret

Understanding means throwing away your knowledge. By Thich Nhat Hanh Understanding Knowledge Throwing

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. By Anatole France Lot Understand Misunderstand

The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion. By Pema Chodron Confusion Idea Develop Sympathy

UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse. By Ambrose Bierce Understanding House Horse Locke Kant

Don't just read to read. Read to understand. By Jill Telford Read Understand

How can I explain what I myself don't understand? By Richelle Mead Understand Explain

When we want to understand something, we cannot just stand outside and observe it. We have to enter deeply into it and be one with it in order to really understand. If we want to understand a person, we have to feel his feelings, suffer his sufferings, and enjoy his joy. By Thich Nhat Hanh Understand Stand Observe Enter Deeply

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself. By Paul Celan Read Time Understanding

There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action. By Jiddu Krishnamurti Action Understanding Understand

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place. By Clarence Darrow Place Understand Put

Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it. By Henry Miller Understanding Mystery Piercing Acceptance Living

People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover why you want to understand. By Idries Shah People Understand Understandthere Thatit Discover

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood. By Brian Tracy Accept Understood Complete Responsibility Understanding

Understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher. By Mortimer J. Adler Understanding Operation Teacher Question Twoway

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox. By William Poundstone Minimum Understanding Contradiction Paradox Bare

The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower. By Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Understand Mind Ultimate Point View

Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people. By Rudolfo Anaya Understanding People Life Plays Death

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. By Kurt Lewin Understand Change

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding. By Elias Canetti Understanding Misunderstanding Understand

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. By David Antin Understanding Find Understood Giving Stubborn

To understand someone, we have to be loving, kind, and compassionate. By Debasish Mridha Kind Loving Compassionate Understand

To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circle of understanding. By Ken Wilber Understand Parts Understanding Circle

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain. By William Feather Plain Make Understood Write

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said ... Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it. By Hans-Georg Gadamer Wanting Understand Understanding Occur Intercept

The problem is not the misunderstanding we have, but the understanding we have missed. We must come to come to a certain understanding; to understand understanding, we need to understand understanding and we must understand with understanding! By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Understanding Understand Missed Problem Misunderstanding

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence. By Henri Frederic Amiel Understood Intelligence Understand Possess Thing

Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion ... By Mason Cooley Confusion Path Understanding Begins

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something By Richard Saul Wurman Essential Prerequisite Understanding Admit Understand

You don't have to understand, you just have to survive. By Cinda Williams Chima Understand Survive

Knowing is important, but understanding is everything. By Debasish Mridha Knowing Important Understanding

Learning is easy; misunderstanding makes it complex! By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Learning Easy Misunderstanding Complex Makes

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development By Aristotle. Observe Development Understand Beginning

I need to concede a considerable area to what I don't know and can't know, and perhaps don't wish to know. Only to understand in a way I do not quite understand. By John Haines Concede Considerable Area Understand

To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself. By Jacques Ranciere Explain Show Understand

When faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again. By Robert A. Heinlein Understand Faced Problem Part

Understanding is aggregated knowledge that has transformed into a lifestyle. By Sunday Adelaja Understanding Lifestyle Aggregated Knowledge Transformed

Not to understand something is better than misunderstanding it. By Vj Nadar Understand Misunderstanding

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand. By Quintilian Understand Misunderstand Aim Impossible

At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand. By Maurice Allais Desire Understand Career Act Policy

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it. By Milton Friedman Unambiguously State Proposition Understand

To understand is to invent. By Jean Piaget Invent Understand

Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. By Alain De Botton Understand Understood Sign

See The Meaning Not The Problem By Sascha Bosio Problem Meaning

Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding, By Bernard Lonergan Understand Base Pattern Opening Understanding

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.'What is that, grandmother?'To understand other people.'Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see. By George Macdonald Grandmother Anxious Hard Understood Fair

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . By Richard P. Feynman Student Understood Explain Year

Understanding is a delaying tactic. By Michael Crichton Understanding Tactic Delaying

When we miss understanding, we meet misunderstanding. Misunderstanding always pushes understanding far away! By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Understanding Misunderstanding Miss Meet Pushes

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out By Casey Stengel Easier Understand Things Figure

Unlike knowledge, understanding cannot be taught. It must be achieved. By Dave Donovan Unlike Knowledge Understanding Taught Achieved

Don't apologize for not understanding. If you stop asking questions then you effectively kill your desire to know the unknown. By S. Vagus Understanding Apologize Unknown Stop Questions

When we seek to understand what makes each of us different before we seek to be understood, we learn. Understanding fosters mutual respect for one another. By D'andre Lampkin Seek Understood Learn Understand Makes

Understanding, perhaps, but understanding is just a word. No one can understand another person unless he is that other person. By Jose Saramago Word Understanding Person Understand

But in the meantime, you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary." "What is that, grandmother?""To understand other people. By George Macdonald Meantime Content Misunderstood Understood Grandmother

But when we feel we are not understood, there is a sense in which we are homeless. And so we must always provide a home of understanding. There will inevitably be times when we do not understand someone's behavior or a certain response, but we can understand the person. By Mary Francis Understood Homeless Feel Sense Understand

What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Possess Understand

To understand is to perceive patterns. By Isaiah Berlin Patterns Understand Perceive

if you want to be understood ...Listen. By Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Listen Understood

Another way of learning for me is to state my own uncertainties, to try to clarify my puzzlements, and thus get closer to the meaning that my experience actually seems to have. By Carl R. Rogers Uncertainties Puzzlements Learning State Clarify

Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship. By Bruce Lee Understanding Feeling Relationship Moment Mirror

This is the mystery. When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything. So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others, and you will be helped by others. Before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you. To By Shunryu Suzuki Understand Mystery Make Thing Hard

I understood HOW: I do not understand WHY. By George Orwell Understood Understand

Understanding is very different from knowing. Understanding is a psychological process of perceiving an object through reason. It is, in a sense, conceptualizing an object. But an object cannot be fully comprehended by conceptual understanding alone. Knowing is not thinking artificially or mobilizing rational logic. It is a state in which you come to obviously and plainly know, without trying to get it right. By Ilchi Lee Understanding Object Knowing Reason Psychological

And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late. By Mahmoud Darwish Late Understand Grasp

There are many things that I don't understand. By Billy Graham Understand Things

We understand what we want to understand. By Susan Meissner Understand

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. By Albert Einstein Explain Year Understand

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search. By Rick Riordan Explain Art Poem Artist Poet

I would like to understand things better, but I don't want to understand them perfectly. By Douglas R. Hofstadter Understand Perfectly Things

The motto is, focus on understanding, not on being understood. By Thomas D. Zweifel Focus Understanding Understood Motto

You can't always understand something just because you did it. By Richard Bachman Understand

If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation. By Haruki Murakami Explanation Understand

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. By Peter Hoeg Lost Understand Attempt Recapture

There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment. By Mooji Understand Understanding Peace Joy Contentment

By studying yesterday, you will understand today. By Suzy Kassem Yesterday Today Studying Understand

The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality. By Rudolf Steiner Exists Realm Reality Task Understanding

You can't understand anything unless you unless you understand everything. By Huston Smith Understand

Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication. By L. Ron Hubbard Understanding Component Parts Specific Affinity

The older I get, the less I understand. By Blake Crouch Understand Older

To wonder is to begin to understand. By Jose Ortega Y Gasset Understand Begin

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go. By Helen Prejean Act Important Thing Understand Matter

By thinking of things you could understand them. By James Joyce Thinking Things Understand

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. By John Locke Knowledge Ends Improvement Understanding Increase

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing. By Bernard Of Clairvaux Understanding Thing Clear Knowledge Invisible

I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to. By Carrie Fisher Understood Understand Forced Issue Bother

It was more difficult not tounderstand than to understand. By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Understand Difficult Tounderstand

One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it. By Hunter S. Thompson Write Understand Sitting Writing Words

The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought! By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Thought Gap Understanding Misunderstanding Bridged

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways. By Jerome Bruner Understanding Preclude

We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it. By Nancy Willard Understand Forgotten

You don't need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience. By Jim George Understand Obedience Obey Reap Blessings