Quotes with understand

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  • Stephen R. Covey Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • George L. Jackson Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
    George L. Jackson
    African-American author and activist
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  • B. R. Ambedkar One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero They condemn what they do not understand.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge Throw away the Old Testament! What part of it will you throw away? That which I do not understand? Take down then yonder blood-stained cross; for there is a love there which passeth knowledge, and a Divine hatred of sin which shook the solid earth.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Napoleon Hill Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Voltaire When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Stephen R. Covey You can't live principals you can't understand.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Edward R. Murrow Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
    Edward R. Murrow
    American broadcast journalist and war correspondent (1908 - 1965)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...human beings have religious needs. They have a need for a feeling of certitude in their minds about things they cannot control and they do not fully understand, and with humility, they admit they do not understand...
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Carter Burwell A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Carl Sagan 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.
    Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bradley Joseph A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have to understand how you make money, what's in demand, what helps you make the most out of your talent.
    On running a label
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • Bill Walton A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Butch Trucks A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Henry James A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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