Alain de Botton Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.

  Alain de Botton

  Wisdom, Taken, Acceptance

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.284, Vintage

• Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

  Alain de Botton

  Happiness, Emotional, Expression

  "On anticipation". www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2002.

• The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

  Alain de Botton

  Views, Luxury, Understanding

• The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

  Alain de Botton

  Glasses, Understanding, Hurtful

  Alain De Botton (1997). “How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel”, Pantheon

• It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.

  Alain de Botton

  Understanding, Findings, Closest

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

• For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

  Alain de Botton

  Understanding, Laziness, Bob

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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