Understanding Quotes

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The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and… — John Cheever
Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish… — Thomas Huxley
One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature… — Harry Allen Overstreet
Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans… — Louis J. Camuti
Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand. — Robert Breault
...if we are open and we prepare for promoting dialogue and love, and a better understanding of each other, and tolerance and so forth, that's… — Russell Simmons
As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would… — Mira Sorvino
The size of a man's understanding can be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson
Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my… — Tina Fey
Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates.… — Jack Kemp
It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand,… — Billie Jean King
I still believe in peace, love, and understanding. — John Lennon
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to. — Robert Breault
This is what enlightenment is all about - a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve, what will you… — Rajneesh
Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school… — Jacob Bronowski
If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding… — Herbert Spencer
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human… — Stephen Jay Gould
We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer… — Thomas Kuhn
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this… — Eileen Caddy

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