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- Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment. — Philibert Joseph Roux
- The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether. — Wallace D. Wattles
- The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if… — Susan Sontag
- I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs. — Alexis de Tocqueville
- For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind… — Edward Feser
- There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk… — Norman Thomas
- Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love. — Miroslav Volf
- Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used. — Mahatma Gandhi
- The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things… — Theodor Adorno
- A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. — Reinhold Niebuhr
- Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. — Mahatma Gandhi
- He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men:… — Julian Barnes