Understanding Quotes
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"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
"Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery."
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
"Rabbit's clever,"said Pooh thoughtfully."Yes,"said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever.""And he has Brain.""Yes,"said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."There was a long silence."I suppose,"said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything."
"There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake."
"Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean."
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."
"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love."
"I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]"
"Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole."
"I both made the knife-fighting team, and I got cut. If only love were so easy to understand."
"When people say they don’t understand my generation, I like to point out that it’s not “my” generation. I’m only co-owner with a 50% stake."
"I’m taller in tolerance than I am in height. Barely. I’m only 6’3, so I apologize for not being more understanding."
"When you give everything and expect nothing in return, only then will you be in a position to gain anything. When you love loving, you give because giving is getting. Giving is a gift unto itself, and when you realize this you understand that you can’t network if you can’t love."
"Better than learning how to speak a foreign language, is to start speaking the truth. But few people will listen, because they just don’t understand."
"She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable."
"The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul’s worth."
"It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten."
"He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it."
"I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind."
"This year I vow to learn how to garden. I will be the Farmer of Love and grow in understanding and forgiveness."
"I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe."
"University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul."
"I write to understand as much as to be understood."
"The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies."
"Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now."
"My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action."
"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding."
"We understand more than we know."
"I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault."
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
"Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding."
"Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories."
"Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the light."
"The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you."
"Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives."
"Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired."
"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."
"There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this."
"Old words are reborn with new faces."
"In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30."
"I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley."
"...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better."
"Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you."
"A leader should always be open to criticism, not silencing dissent. Any leader who does not tolerate criticism from the public is afraid of their dirty hands to be revealed under heavy light. And such a leader is dangerous, because they only feel secure in the darkness. Only a leader who is free from corruption welcomes scrutiny; for scrutiny allows a good leader to be an even greater leader."
"Even so, I’m somebody.I’m the Discoverer of Nature.I’m the Argonaut of true sensations.I bring a new Universe to the UniverseBecause I bring the Universe to itself."
"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses."
"It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate."
"Let men be men and let women be women and the world will revolve around its purpose"
"Men build too many walls and not enough bridges."
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