Understanding Quotes

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It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again. — Marisha Pessl
Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to… — Thomas Willis
The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water. — Viktor Schauberger
Many confuse understanding with believing. — Watchman Nee
The not so simple Truth is that we must be psychologically free in order to resist and we must resist in order to be free,… — Mari Evans
We each deal with childhood in different ways. That brothers and sisters can take the same lump of clay that is childhood and use it… — Laura Ramirez
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. — David Antin
The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding. — Nhat Hanh
All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience...Genuine integration… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world. — Booth Tarkington
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace,… — Chen Shui-bian
You know, this dialogue is only helpful when we come, both of us, to a point and realize that no dialogue is possible, that no… — U.G. Krishnamurti
The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and… — Dee Hock
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards. — Johan Huizinga
The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion… — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding. — Zhuangzi
Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm… — Ellen Langer
It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in… — John Walford
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy. — Aaron Swartz
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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