Understanding Quotes
5353 quotes by 3242 authors
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The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
— Jack Kornfield
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Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.
— Dainin Katagiri
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If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of…
— Dainin Katagiri
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If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
— Wilhelm Dilthey
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What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?
— Atul Gawande
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The thing that's worth doing is trying to improve our understanding of the world and gain a better appreciation of the universe and not to…
— Elon Musk
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I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.
— Justin Trudeau
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which…
— Felix Frankfurter
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Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
— Alexander Wang
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Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.
— Brian Tracy
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Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
— Henry Moore
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In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of…
— Knut Hamsun
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Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.
— Jean Renoir
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As we mature personally, as our families mature, and as our churches mature, we need the doctrine of sin more, not less; and we need…
— C. J. Mahaney
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Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.
— Arthur W. Pink
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I think that ultimately we will attain much more depth of understanding of Scripture when we are able to study it in the company of…
— Wayne Grudem
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Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of…
— John Stott
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It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding…
— Charles Duhigg
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Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very…
— Jeff Buckley
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