Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy,… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
The sex of spouses has nothing to do with why relationships fail. They fail for lack of love or, more precisely, for… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
There are wonderful artists who deal in the fashion world only, and you see by their creations that they are changing our… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
We need to have a unified understanding of our national heritage without losing our personal distinctives. The closer that national heritage is… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
My mum, who died in 2011, was the most loving mother you could ask for. She was very compassionate, always a good… — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think one of the primary reasons young women don't identify as feminist is because they don't know any feminists and/or don't… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
The confidentiality of the judicial process would not matter greatly to an understanding and evaluation of the legal system if the consequences… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
A man develops a subtle power as a result of the strict observance of celibacy for twelve years. Then he can understand… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“However, why does it so often fail to dawn on them that if we’re smart enough to understand their instructions, we might… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish. — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Praying is our number one priority, God understands our hearts, and he is the only one who can help us, in all… — Sunita Penny Copy Share Image
Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be… — Bono Copy Share Image
I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
“A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Other than basketball, I just come to KG for advice on life, just understanding how business works and understanding how I can… — Karl-Anthony Towns Copy Share Image
So there is going to be that balance of understanding how to get the best out of the car that day, whether… — Kurt Busch Copy Share Image
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
A foolish man will pray and ask God for money, a wise man will pray and ask God for Wisdom, Knowledge &… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now.… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Death and dying provide a meeting-point between the Tibetan Buddhist and modern scientific traditions. I believe both have a great deal to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Help me lord to accept that I cant possibly know everything, and to rest secure in the certainty that you have revealed… — Bible Copy Share Image
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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