Quotes with understanding

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  • G. C. Lichtenberg We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Walter Lippmann We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Jacob Bronowski We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Audre Lorde We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012)
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Arianna Huffington We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa We want you to sit down and leave your egos at home and let's get an understanding as to where all this is foolishness coming from. There are others who are putting things out there or throwing a stick and hiding their hand and keeping things built up in the media.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Bryan Singer What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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  • Anita Hill What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Abdullah Ibrahim When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
    Abdullah Ibrahim
    South African pianist and composer (1934 - )
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Oscar Wilde Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Sagan Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
    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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  • Samuel Smiles Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Oprah Winfrey With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • George Gurdjieff Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Jim Rohn Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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