Understanding Quotes

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Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. — Charles Kettering
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding. — Juan Antonio Samaranch
Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and… — Juan Antonio Samaranch
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another. — Emma Goldman
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude. — Raymond Holliwell
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more… — Xenophon
We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside… — Ricardo Lagos
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. — Robert Hall
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness… — Robert Hall
The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not… — Patricia Sun
The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America… — Arthur Henderson
Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary… — Roland Allen
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding. — Friedrich August von Hayek
The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel… — Charles Munch
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. — Peter Davison
Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community,… — Stephen Breyer
They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team. — David Gower
This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and… — Ben Edwards

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