Understanding Quotes

A personal interpretation of a person, message, event or situation which leads to planning and using concepts is called a good understanding. Concentrating on an object in focus and understanding it is a thought provoking process that requires some patience! To fully understand something or someone takes from a few minutes to ages depending on the complexity of the situation. There are certain attributes that facilitate understanding and some of them could include these famous knowing/discernment quotations and sayings!

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Pleasure Learning Excitement
Leonardo da Vinci

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I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.
Humanity
Benedict Cumberbatch

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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Present Remembrance Decision Thinking
Omar Khayyam

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A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
Farewell Men Women Manners
Helen Rowland

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It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.
Experience
Donnie Yen

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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
Good People
Jack Nicholson

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A friendship like love is warm; a love like friend ship is steady.
Friendship Love Relationship Affection
Thomas More

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I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.
Learning
Allison Mack

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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Warning Character Recognition Experience
Franklin P. Jones

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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
Samuel L. Jackson

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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
Mistakes
George Soros

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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
Good
J. K. Rowling

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Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
Acceptance
Michael J. Fox

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My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
Universe
Stephen Hawking

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

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I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
Relationship
Zsa Zsa Gabor

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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Opinion Viewpoint Communication Results
Thomas Hobbes

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An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
Greatness Curiosity World
David Attenborough

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One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
Things
Christopher Nolan

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It's not just about showing people what you can do on the ball in those wider positions, it's about gaining the full understanding of each position and what it takes to get that spot.
People
Marcus Rashford

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Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
Family
Sandra Day O'Connor

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My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.
Family
Anna Kendrick

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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Help Wickedness Darkness
Carl Jung

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Inspiration Life Meaningful Motivation
Soren Kierkegaard

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Art is the struggle to understand.
Life Art Struggles
Terri Guillemets

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No! Someday you will understand. Just save it in a box.
Advice Remembrance Mind
Walter Winchell

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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
Body Proverbs Truth Wisdom
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Life Science
Woodrow Wilson

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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Wisdom Education
Ambrose Bierce

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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Peace Differences Work
Harry S. Truman

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Hopefully the presence in Congress of an American who happens to be Hindu will increase America's understanding of India as well as India's understanding of America.
Tulsi Gabbard

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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Compassion
Erma Bombeck

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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus

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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.
Meaningful Men Observation Opinion
Helen Rowland

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When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
World Heart
Laurence Sterne

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I started really believing and understanding what it meant to be a follower of Jesus when I was probably in high school sometime. From there, just trying to draw on my faith since then.
School Faith Trying
Clayton Kershaw

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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Nature Senses
Francis Bacon

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Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Norman Vincent Peale

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It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.
Science Integrity
Nicole Scherzinger

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Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.
People
Julian Assange

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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
William James

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Baseball could end tomorrow but you're just understanding that God is in control of it and we are not.
God
Clayton Kershaw

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Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.
God Religion
Anthony Hopkins

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There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
Defeat
Tony Blair

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I've been very encouraged by the nature of the conversations that I've had and by the lack of questions that are tunnel-visioned in their understanding of sexuality and life and love.
Life Love Nature
Timothee Chalamet

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Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.
Good
Robert De Niro

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The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Excitement
Audre Lorde

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

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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Imagination
Isaac Newton

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When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end she is this person, she's different from she was in the beginning. I guess it's more a subconscious understanding of that arc.
Character
Shailene Woodley

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Sadness Pain
Khalil Gibran

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I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.
Hope Lonliness
Gerald R. Ford

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Understanding is a two-way street.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Faith World
Douglas MacArthur

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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
Love People Support
Lou Holtz

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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
Effort
Zooey Deschanel

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I didn't watch much television growing up, and before I did 'Boston Legal,' I had no understanding of what it was like for a viewer to look forward to finding out what was going to happen the next week.
James Spader

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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Reason Faith
Martin Luther

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The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.
Happiness
Sushant Singh Rajput

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Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She's such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character.
Cool Character
Blake Lively

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I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.
Nature Hope
Al Gore

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I'm terrified of the ocean. I think it's beautiful and magical, but I never go in. That deep, dark water, with no understanding of what goes on behind it - I think that's a metaphor for a lot of things.
Water
David Harbour

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Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
Lonliness
Sandra Day O'Connor

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I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
People Dreams
Princess Diana

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This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.
Vision
Martin Sheen

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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Things Time
Vincent Van Gogh

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Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.
Business
Mark Zuckerberg

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As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive.
Life Women Food
Sharon Stone

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The idea of faking empathy to take a step forward to understanding - it's a really powerful idea.
Jonathan Groff

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It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
Feelings
Oprah Winfrey

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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
Society Togetherness Living
Eric Hoffer

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I love what I do so much, and I have a very acute understanding of how I work as a person, so if I'm afraid, I shut down and can't do anything. If I'm overwhelmed, I shut down and can't do anything.
Love Work
Anya Taylor-Joy

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How do we get to equality? I don't think it comes from fear. I think it comes from understanding.
Equality Fear
Rooney Mara

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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Peace
Helen Keller

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I like understanding what's underneath, what's really motivating people. When I was younger, I wanted to be a psychiatrist, so I think it has to do with that.
People
Michelle Pfeiffer

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I grew up on the very human side of Christianity, so messages in the household I grew up in were about peace, love, and being understanding of everybody, which I think is quite cool.
Cool Love Peace
Tom Ellis

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I have songs that define characters from each film of mine. It can be a song from that particular film or something that just goes with the wavelength of the film; you listen to it, and it gives you that rhythm. I can't articulate how it helps, but it somehow gives you an understanding of the character.
Character
Sushant Singh Rajput

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You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you're not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.
People
Mark Zuckerberg

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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Fame
Oprah Winfrey

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My wife is a brilliant, hugely understanding person.
Wives
Jamie Dornan

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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Law
Plato

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Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
Togetherness Compassion
Woodrow Wilson

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Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
Zig Ziglar

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Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
Love Compromise
Nicole Kidman

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I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.
Family
Ryan Reynolds

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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Government
Harry S. Truman

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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Conscience Memory
Michel de Montaigne

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It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
America Music
James Baldwin

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For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!
Change Hope Tree
Ewan McGregor

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With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
Health Age Appreciation
Oprah Winfrey

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Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'
Good
Tom Stoppard

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Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories about them.
Parents
Taika Waititi

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I don't try to come in and act like I know it all, and that's why I put the extra work in of watching film, getting an understanding of what you want from personnel, each player.
Work
Rajon Rondo

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It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
People Character
Halle Berry

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For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.
Problems Government
Sandra Day O'Connor

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I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.
People Parents
Dwyane Wade

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

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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
Imagination Genius
Marcus Aurelius

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To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.
Character Play
Jamie Dornan

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I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.
Knowledge
Sonia Sotomayor

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