Best Quotes About Understanding (Top 100)
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
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If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Stephen Hawking
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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein
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It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Malcolm X
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard Dawkins
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Franz Kafka
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Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
Bob Dylan
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Life is too short to learn German
Oscar Wilde
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard
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There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.
Tom Robbins
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.
Sylvia Plath
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
Richard Bach
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How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
David Foster Wallace
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Anthony Robbins
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius
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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.
Stephen Hawking
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Kahlil Gibran
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A person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person's soul.
John O'Donohue
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
Tennessee Williams
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Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Erich Segal
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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
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And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.
Alberto Moravia
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
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Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Emma Goldman
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there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
Brad Meltzer
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.
Bryan Stevenson
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Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.
Jean Piaget
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Omar Khayyam
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar
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Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...
Brian Greene
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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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.
Isaac Newton
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Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.
Gary Zukav
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Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
Freddie Mercury
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant
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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
Harry S. Truman
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It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.
Anna Wintour
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Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
Lawrence Clark Powell
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I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
Seamus Heaney
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I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
Abraham Lincoln
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We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity.
Kofi Annan
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To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Anthony Robbins
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell
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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.
George Soros
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The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one's passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.
Norman Mailer
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I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.
John Denver
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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights.
Kahlil Gibran
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
George Eliot
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If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
Niels Bohr
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
Isaiah Berlin
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan
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A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
Chin-Ning Chu
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There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
Bryant H. McGill
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When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
George Steiner
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein
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I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Rollo May
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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
Jeremy Bentham
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If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin
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When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.
Joss Whedon
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It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
Bede Griffiths
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Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
Diane Arbus
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The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.
Julian Barnes
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If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
Bruce Schneier
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The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.
Adam Phillips
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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
Lao Tzu
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza
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Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.
Jean Webster
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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg
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It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.
John Pilger
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The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
Willie Dixon
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Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon
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To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Helen Rowland
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We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.
William Arthur Ward
Even More Understanding Quotes
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We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.
William Arthur Ward
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Marshall McLuhan
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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
William Congreve
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You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
Guy Finley
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Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
James Thurber
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There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.
Guy Gavriel Kay
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck
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O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn
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If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee.
Sydney Smith
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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain
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Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
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Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
Amiri Baraka
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Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.
Luigi Pirandello
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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Lionel Trilling
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Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.
Clifford Geertz
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
Henry James
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
Samuel Richardson
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But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
Marc Bloch
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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
Helen Rowland
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If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
William Allen White
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I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance
Alfred de Vigny
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Understanding is a two-way street.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.
Elsa Einstein
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Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.
Bruce Jay Friedman
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You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.
Paul Rand
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Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
Milton Friedman
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We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.
John Quincy Adams
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Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
Steven Brust
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Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.
Elias Canetti
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
Pierre Beaumarchais
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In all your getting, get understanding.
Jacqueline Woodson
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. Forster
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Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence.
Akhenaton
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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
John Locke
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou
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History is contemporary. Your understanding of history confirms what you think of the present. It's not neutral. I would be very surprised if people with a different view of the present, don't take issue with my view of the past. I just hope that people deal with the content of the film.
Ken Loach
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
Felix Frankfurter
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Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts
Ernst Mayr
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W. Clement Stone
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Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.
Wade Davis
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The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.
Harvey Keitel
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Anatole France
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Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
Diane Ravitch
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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.
Oprah Winfrey
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Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
Marian Anderson
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A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.
Margaret Bourke-White
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Lord Chesterfield
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The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
Arthur Young
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If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
Dave Pelzer
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We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life stories and " equally important " to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others.
Maureen Corrigan
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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
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We can love someone without understanding that person.
Dorothy Rowe
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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
John Woolman
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The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
Raymond Williams
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin
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The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Alfred Adler
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu
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A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.
Vernon Howard
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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.
Lewis Thomas
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...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.
Jan Karon
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Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
David Gerrold
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When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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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.
Helen Rowland
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If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
Walter Savage Landor
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I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
James Boswell
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Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.
Mary McCarthy
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Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.
Karl A. Menninger
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It takes a long time to understand nothing.
Edward Dahlberg
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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Voltaire
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The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
Errol Morris
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis
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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Katherine Mansfield
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Henri Bergson
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Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.
John Wyndham
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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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I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.
Albert Memmi
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All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.
David Hume
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
George Santayana
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My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
Anne Sullivan
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It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
Graham Greene
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Peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.
Amit Ray
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene Descartes
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Jacob Bronowski
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Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.
Ernst Mayr
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde
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For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Robert Penn Warren
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Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.
George S. Clason
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We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
M. Scott Peck
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater
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What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.
Bryan Singer
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Michel de Montaigne
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The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.
Bill Buford
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And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few more modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why— which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive.
Jon Krakauer
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
Emma Goldman
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Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.
Charles Kingsley
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Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin.
Aristotle Onassis
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
Barry Commoner
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Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
Burt Rutan
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Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
Pope Julius III
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Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that"in many realms, not just sex"we're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.
Robert Wright
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I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better appreciation for the fact that if any community is going to prosper, if any community is going to be seen at its best, that the women in that community have to be viewed as equally as important as the men. And [women] have to be able to live outside of boundaries that are placed on them because of their gender. As well as their race or their religion.
Anita Hill
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The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory
Robert Southey
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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.
Vincent Van Gogh
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It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.
Joe Chung
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A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
Kenneth A. Wells
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What's so funny about peace, love and understanding
Nick Lowe
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi
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No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
Helen Rowland
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At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.
Jane Wagner
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My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me.
Anjelica Huston
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
John Cage
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Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
George Savile
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Laozi
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
Elizabeth Drew
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An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.
Lloyd C. Douglas
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The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.
Annie Dillard
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It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.
Robert Boyle
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To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.
George Gissing
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie
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A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
George Savile
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One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer understanding of the movement, its origins, and our adversaries' mindset. The nuances are absolutely critical. Our adversaries are wedded to the ideology that informs and fuels their struggle, and, by not paying attention, we risk not knowing our enemy.
Bruce Hoffman
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Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
Chinese Proverbs
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Sorrow is so woven through us, so much a part of our souls, or at least any understanding of our souls that we are able to attain, that every experience is dyed with its color. This is why, even in moment of joy, part of that joy is the seams of ore that are our sorrow. They burn darkly and beautifully in the midst of joy, and they make joy the complete experience that it is. But they still burn.
Christian Wiman
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
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Again a different meaning has to be understood.
Buddha
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I have learned more about love, selflessness and human
understanding in this great adventure in the world of Aids than I
ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my
life.
Anthony Perkins
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It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
Kahlil Gibran
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The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.
Agathon
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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart
John Adams
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Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.
James Agee
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Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal
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There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance — physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.
Hunter S. Thompson
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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.
David Attenborough
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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire
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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill
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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.
Harry S. Truman
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The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line
Joanna Field
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In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.
Bill Gates
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Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
Plato
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Wayne Dyer
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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Man knows much more than he understands.
Alfred Adler
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True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
Voltaire
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People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
John Locke
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The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
Dwight David Eisenhower
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
Albert Einstein
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The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page.
Debbie Allen
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Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Aristotle
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I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no
Maya Angelou
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You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride
Charleszetta Waddles
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.
Soren Kierkegaard
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There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it
Charles F. Kettering