Understood Quotes

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To walk before God and in His presence, is the ground and the costly jewel of true Christian living. I would have you above all… — Gerhard Tersteegen
Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for… — Allen Weinstein
Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes,… — Hideki Tojo
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim,… — Maria Montessori
Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that… — Maria Montessori
Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood. — Christian Morgenstern
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other — Paul Ricoeur
I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I did reading â€œWhat… — Nancy Milford
If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded… — Pope Pius IX
Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step. — Aleister Crowley
I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. — Andre Rieu
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it. — Murray Kempton
Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in… — Cyril Connolly
I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven… — Dorothy Allison
Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil. — William Godwin
Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood byÂ everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately… — Taiichi Ohno
The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is all about things… — Freeman Dyson
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its… — Albert J. Nock
Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over… — Walter Rauschenbusch
I never understood where the satisfaction is when you're missing the pleasure of conquest. — Silvio Berlusconi

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