Quotes with understand

  • Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
  • What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.
  • A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
  • The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
  • When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they ''don't understand'' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
  • No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
  • Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
  • Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
  • I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.
  • The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person hears only what they understand.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Harry S. Truman It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • W. H. Auden ''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 are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Robert Frost Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Walter Lippmann It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • George S. Clason Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
    George S. Clason
    American author (1874 - 1957)
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  • Groucho Marx A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Billy Graham A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Ben Carson And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Emma Goldman Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Oswald Chambers Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Carlyle I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Confucius I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • James Keir Hardie I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.
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  • Anatole France It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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