Understanding Quotes

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If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are… — Meher Baba
If you want understanding try giving some. — Malcolm Forbes
Seek first to understand before being understood. — J. Richard Clarke
I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing. — John Lyly
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence. — Henri Frederic Amiel
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? — Harriet Martineau
Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used. — Mahatma Gandhi
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was… — Dorothy Parker
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured… — Charles Caleb Colton
As we strive to better understand how Jesus sees us and contemplate our own attempts to live as the Redeemer would have us live, let… — Cecil O. Samuelson
Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role… — Carolyn Heilbrun
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong. — Billy Joel
At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end… — Bertrand Russell
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so… — Antonin Artaud
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit. — Ambrose Bierce
INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the… — Ambrose Bierce
The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural than… — Amado Nervo
I am not talking to you from the point of view of just wishful thinking, or imaginary craziness. I'm talking to you from a deeper… — Fred Alan Wolf
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.… — Jacob Bronowski

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