Quotes for: to understand

Quotes for: to understand

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.
Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus

Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.
Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo

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

The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
André Gide

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Richard Phillips Feynman

If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Citadelle

A very dangerous state of mind: thinking one understands.
Paul Valéry

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard - Journals

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi

True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957

They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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To understand is, above all, to unify.
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde

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

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

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Man knows much more than he understands.
Alfred Adler

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince

It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
Paulo Coelho

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.
Theodor W. Adorno

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
Milan Kundera

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

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus of Ephesus

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
John Locke

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
Hypatia