Understand Quotes
12470 Understand quotes by 6478 unique authors
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Humans and other animals experience love and fear, and form deep emotional bonds with cherished companions. We mourn when a close friend dies, and so…
— Gene Baur
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Veganism isn’t just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and aspires to the…
— Howard Lyman
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I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if…
— Penelope Fitzgerald
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Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth,…
— Robert Greene
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As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any…
— C.S. Lewis
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In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.
— C.S. Lewis
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Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is…
— C.S. Lewis
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Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?
— Nigel Farage
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I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state…
— Anthony A. Williams
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Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not…
— Umberto Eco
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In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understanding—in…
— Mikhail Bakhtin
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I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided…
— Zoltan Kodaly
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Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any…
— Zoltan Kodaly
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Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.
— Sergei Prokofiev
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We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and…
— Kay Bailey Hutchison
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I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe.…
— Mortimer Adler
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It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority.…
— Murasaki Shikibu
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The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
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The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven emotions:…
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
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Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.
— Thomas Sowell
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't…
— Andy Hertzfeld
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What I learned is, we have to listen to each other, even when we don't agree, even when we think we hate each other. We…
— Jane Fonda
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The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others.
— Unknown Author
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Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must…
— Maya Angelou
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