Their Understanding Quotes
35 quotes by 33 authors
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Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in…
— Bono
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Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
— James Rachels
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Leave people to their opinions and judgements. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours.
— Leon Brown
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It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply…
— Richard Dawkins
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Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.
— Wes Fesler
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But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising their autonomous right…
— Robert L. Reymond
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It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.
— Christine de Pizan
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The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were…
— Harry Crews
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The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of…
— John Amos Comenius
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There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding…
— Laozi
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Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding…
— Joseph Jaworski
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Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their…
— Laozi
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The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information,…
— Jeff Bezos
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The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.
— Marshall Goldsmith
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And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books…
— Nina Bawden
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Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public…
— Henrik Ibsen
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Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced…
— Leland Ryken
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By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they know…
— Hans Rookmaaker
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