We Understand Quotes

395 quotes by 336 authors

A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only… — Yo-Yo Ma
To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy. — Nhat Hanh
So what is the difference between "power thinking" and "positive" thinking? The distinction is slight but profound. To me, people use positive thinking to pretend… — T. Harv Eker
The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character. — John K. Fairbank
Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it. — John Battelle
Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government… — Walter E. Williams
There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's… — Jerry Fodor
All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels. — Joan Walsh Anglund
It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes. — Paul Erdos
When we understand our baptismal covenant and the gift of the Holy Ghost, it will change our lives and will establish our total allegiance to… — Robert D. Hales
We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too. — Freeman Dyson
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin?… — Peter Kreeft
Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India — Lin Yutang
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you… — Rodney Yee
God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure… — Richard M. Nixon
We need to be moral archaeologists to pull out how we understand the world — Yosef Abramowitz
The latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can accept that as… — Alexi Lalas
When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart. — Stephen Fry

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