Understanding Quotes
5353 quotes by 3113 authors
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In all practices and traditions of freedom, we find the heart's task to be quite simple. Life offers us just what it offers, and our…
— Jack Kornfield
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We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the…
— Honor Harger
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Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by…
— Jason Silva
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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are…
— Kenneth Tynan
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
— Immanuel Kant
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Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.
— Joe Torre
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Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It's the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your senses and intellect so…
— Rob Brezsny
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At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all…
— Jane Wagner
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Self-worth is an understanding on the intellectual level, trusting at the heart level, and accepting at the soul level that you are worthy just because…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
— Ang Lee
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I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the willingness to confront…
— Nathaniel Branden
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If God is not unchanging, then the whole basis of our faith begins to fall apart, and our understanding of the universe begins to unravel.…
— Wayne Grudem
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Understanding Scripture in a language other than the heart language in which we think and experience emotion is "like trying to eat soup with a…
— William Cameron Townsend
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Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do…
— Epictetus
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Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver,…
— Solomon
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As we get better at understanding how little we know about the body, we begin to realize that the next big frontier in medicine, is…
— Mehmet Oz
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Love is creative and redemptive. Love builds up and unites; hate tears down and destroys. The aftermath of the ‘fight with fire’ method...is bitterness and…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace.
— Harry S. Truman
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
— Robert Henri
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