We Understand Quotes
395 quotes by 330 authors
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I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real…
— Allen West
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The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere,…
— Freeman Dyson
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In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret…
— Sarah Orne Jewett
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Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.
— Wilfred Owen
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THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world…
— Luigi Pirandello
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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for…
— Adrienne Rich
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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
— Jane Goodall
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We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that…
— Paulo Coelho
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The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?…
— Yann Martel
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It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are?…
— Douglas Coupland
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There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when…
— Paulo Coelho
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Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a…
— Aldo Leopold
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the…
— James Allen
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When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.
— Colleen McCullough
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Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on…
— William J. Clinton
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The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
— Richard Dawkins
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The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves…
— Erwin McManus
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