Understanding Quotes

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. — Socrates
Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming,… — Will Tuttle
The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet… — David C. Cassidy
In every trial Let understanding fight for you. — Gautama Buddha
Rid of craving and without clinging, an expert in the study of texts, and understanding the right sequence of the words, he may indeed be… — Gautama Buddha
Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding. — Plato
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding… — Hazel Henderson
Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little… — Calvin Miller
A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
This is something I consider Enlightenment to be - and that is to give intellectual or spiritual understanding and to be free of ignorance, false… — Jane Seymour
But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising their autonomous right… — Robert L. Reymond
If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new… — Sonja Lyubomirsky
If we can choose where to cry, at home or with a few people who will be fully understanding, perhaps we will feel easier. But… — Martha Whitmore Hickman
Since the brain is unlike any other structure in the known universe, it seems reasonable to expect that our understanding of its functioning - if… — Richard Restak
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. — Henry Williams
We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that understanding, to revert… — Ian Gardner
In ignorance I am something; in understanding I am nothing, in love I am everything. — Rupert Spira
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts. — Bob Proctor
Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general… — David C. Cassidy
How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled mind, No longer… — Gautama Buddha

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