Own Understanding Quotes
46 quotes by 41 authors
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We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail…
— Oswald Chambers
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Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke the response of the universe…
— Laozi
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Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own…
— Arlo Guthrie
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Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where…
— Jerry Uelsmann
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I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too…
— Byron Katie
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Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding,…
— Frederic Bastiat
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My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it…
— Carl Jung
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Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who…
— Charles Hodge
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Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation... when adults listen-really listen-to what the children are trying to say,…
— Carol Bowman
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For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by…
— Ted Dekker
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We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the…
— Martin Luther
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It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.
— Marisha Pessl
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The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion…
— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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Believers talk about trusting in the Lord with their whole heart and refusing to lean on thier own understanding, but no one really knows what…
— David Jeremiah
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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if…
— Immanuel Kant
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I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going…
— Meryl Streep
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In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right or wrong for…
— Debbie Ford
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Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of…
— Jane Rule
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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
— Mary Astell
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