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Understanding Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
- Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
- You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.…
- The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
- A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
- A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom…
- The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
- The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which…
- The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss…
- Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
- Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
- To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
- The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every…
- It is a luxury to be understood.
More Understanding Quotes
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
- An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already… — Richard Bach
- The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and… — Michele Bachmann
- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. — Francis Bacon