Understanding Quotes

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In the quiet hours, in the heat of battle, and through the hazards of the day; in times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and… — Heber J. Grant
When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it… — Eliot Spitzer
A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost… — Philip Agee
Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An… — Howard Gardner
The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance has faded away… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces. — Carolyn Murphy
It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a reliable connection to… — Sharon Salzberg
We are born into a realm of constant change. Everything is decaying. We are continually losing all that we come in contact with. Our tendency… — Noah Levine
We come to understand the law of casuality - that is, we see that all beings are experiencing what they're experiencing based on their own… — Noah Levine
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the… — Joan Halifax
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding — Burt Rutan
We need to take a less narrow look at our childrenâ€™s problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunityâ€”a way of exploring and understanding… — Stanley Greenspan
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such… — John Searle
Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand. — Baltasar Gracian
There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a… — Edward Zwick
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came… — Henry David Thoreau
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding. — Samuel Johnson
When earth life is over and things appear in their true perspective, we shall more clearly see and realize what the Lord and his prophets… — Marion G. Romney
We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form -… — Dee Hock

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