We Understand Quotes
395 quotes by 335 authors
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Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.
— Michele Weiner-Davis
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Since the brain is unlike any other structure in the known universe, it seems reasonable to expect that our understanding of its functioning - if…
— Richard Restak
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Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely.
— Gautama Buddha
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Literature is always best when it is celebrating its subjects darkly. ... And because it is often by describing the thing lost - a family,…
— Bill Buford
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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
— Plato
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Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and…
— Julia Serano
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The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking -…
— George Orwell
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Forgiveness is not a matter of feeling superior, of feeling sorry for our parents because they didn't' know any better. It comes when we understand…
— Gerald Jampolsky
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The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.
— Baruch Spinoza
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That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during, the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were…
— Paulo Coelho
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We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
— Daniel Kahneman
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The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
— Daniel Kahneman
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Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
— Fredrik Bajer
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And so we understand that the atonement of Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to overcome spiritual death that results from sin, and, through making…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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While understanding the 'what' and the 'how' of the gospel is necessary, the eternal fire and majesty of the gospel springs from the 'why.' When…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned…
— Albert Camus
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One of the significant facts about the moment of birth is that it is an unconscious moment. No one ever knows when he is being…
— Sterling W Sill
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One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when…
— Chris Van Hollen
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If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will…
— Edward Bernays
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