Understanding Quotes
5353 quotes by 3113 authors
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Greatly ought we to rejoice that God dwells in our soul; and more greatly ought we to rejoice that our soul dwells in God. Our…
— Julian of Norwich
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A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them
— Ninon de L'Enclos
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Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Collage is more than just an art style. Collage is all about bringing different elements together. Once you form a sensibility about connection, how different…
— Unknown Author
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Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.
— Molly Haskell
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Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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Struggle is actually something that is important to the process of understanding what true happiness is.
— Ryan Allis
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Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of…
— Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
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I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good,…
— Warren G
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Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
— Steven Bochco
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It isn't necessary to trust God when we have full understanding and knowledge of what He is doing on our behalf... Trust is needed in…
— Joyce Meyer
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The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the…
— Polykarp Kusch
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Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the…
— Polykarp Kusch
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The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.
— Willard Libby
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It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps…
— Allan Massie
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Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human…
— Mohammed Arkoun
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There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of…
— Anatoly Chubais
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There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law,I don't care how many Bibles you…
— Paul Castellano
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Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely.
— Friedrich Schleiermacher
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Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is…
— Mick Dodson
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