Understanding Quotes

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By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons and person-animals who delivered… — Ursula Goodenough
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are… — John Polkinghorne
Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through… — Karl Jaspers
These transcending truths restructure our understanding of ourselves and of the universe and bring within our view resplendent reality. To be seen only by those… — Neal A. Maxwell
Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the… — Stanislav Grof
The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept. — Mark Regev
I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just… — Jenna Elfman
The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules. — Hosokawa Tadaoki
Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used. — Mohammad Javad Zarif
At this moment, I have in my heart a prayer. As I have assumed my heavy duties, I humbly pray, Almighty God, in the words… — Harry S. Truman
One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot. — Robert Breault
Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power… — Edmund Burke
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction.… — Dale Carnegie
It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of… — Ursula Goodenough
When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child… — Stephen Covey
The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans. — Peter Morville
The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in… — Will Burtin
Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going… — Paula Scher
When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and… — Stephen Kanner

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