Understanding Quotes

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Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge.… — Clifford Stoll
Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these… — Hippocrates
Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind. — Walter J. Phillips
To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become… — Jerry Garcia
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be… — Stanislav Grof
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile. — Henry David Thoreau
I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Chanukah. — George W. Bush
I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding. — Samuel Johnson
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes. — Josh Billings
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs… — Albert Einstein
I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person. — George W. Bush
Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips,… — Martin Luther
There will be no major solution to the suffering of humanity until we reach some understanding of who we are, what the purpose of creation… — Woody Allen
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not. — Ben Jonson
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons… — Lionel Trilling
A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel… — Thomas Aquinas
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics. — Frank Ocean
May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of… — Heber J. Grant
Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of… — Rollo May

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