Understanding Quotes
5353 quotes by 3283 authors
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Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and…
— Emma Thompson
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I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and…
— Susan Boyle
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It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.
— Lupita Nyong'o
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I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being…
— Josh Lucas
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If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.
— Rick Wakeman
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Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. This special ability…
— Branford Marsalis
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I pray that you all put your shoes way under the bed at night so that you gotta get on your knees in the morning…
— Denzel Washington
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Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.
— Deepak Chopra
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Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he’s called the…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.
— Fritz Lang
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The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This is one of…
— Carl Sagan
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You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of…
— Edward James Olmos
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I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class...
— Angie Harmon
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When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding.…
— Abdullah Ibrahim
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If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess…
— Vin Diesel
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Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.
— Roger Ebert
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I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort.…
— Adolf Hitler
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As our understanding of obedience deepens, we recognize the essential role of agency.
— Robert D. Hales
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Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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