Understanding Quotes

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You may seek companionship and warmth, for example, but if your unconscious intention is to keep people at a distance, the experiences of separation and… — Gary Zukav
I believe that box lacrosse gives young people many more opportunities to excel in our game. If I had my choice, I would have every… — Bill Tierney
The key to understanding the Bible is Jesus Christ. — J C Ryle
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankindâ€™s incremental acquisition of understanding through… — Tim Minchin
I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who… — Socrates
I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the… — Joseph Campbell
Don't you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God's… — Judah Smith
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world. — William Kentridge
Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness. — Alberto Villoldo
Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy… — Erin Gray
You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding… — Tara Brach
A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than… — Yann Martel
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts.… — Will Durant
The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to… — Karl Marx
For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a serious… — Henry A. Kissinger
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt,… — Ezra Pound
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. — Robert Rauschenberg
And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day… — Morrie Schwartz
The Christian will desire to see the beauty of God in his house, that his soul might be ravished in the excellency of the object,… — Richard Sibbes

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