Understands Quotes

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Remember, the best leaders are those who understand that their power flows through them, not from them.

The only way to be successful in life lies in the understanding of natural order of things.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Pray to understand what man has forgotten.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.

When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

They condemn what they do not understand.

UNDERSTANDING does not necessarily mean AGREEMENT.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;

Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.